B-284860.4: Aug 23, 2002

A firm requested that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) reimburse its costs of pursuing a protest of a contract award for advisory and technical assistance services. GAO recommended that USAID reimburse the protester for its protest costs...

B-284860.4: Aug 23, 2002

DIGEST Request for a recommendation for the reimbursement of reasonable costs of filing and pursuing a protest is timely filed where the request was filed within 15 days of the protester being advised of the corrective action on which GAO's subsequent dismissal of the protest as academic was based. The successful contractors under the RFP will be required to provide USAID with short-term advisory...