B-270602.3: Aug 21, 1996

A firm claimed reimbursement for its protest costs pursuant to its protest of a Military Sealift Command (MSC) solicitation for tugboat towing and related harbor services. The protester withdrew its protest after MSC took corrective action regarding a defective solicitation specification. GAO held that: (1) the protest was clearly meritorious, since the disputed specification had the potential to...

B-270602.3: Aug 21, 1996

General Accounting Office will not recommend that protester recover costs of filing and pursuing its protest where the record shows that corrective action was taken 8 calendar days after the key issue was squarely put in dispute. Therefore was not unduly delayed. Tidewater maintains that because the protest was "clearly meritorious and the [agency] took significant corrective action. The challenge...