United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2002-05-03 monographic deposited born digital 9 p. GA 1.13:B-289096.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3 P0b002ee18fd480e5 f:2890963 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3 B-289096.3 Comptroller General Decision 1. Protest challenging reasonableness of the agency's cost realism analysis of the awardee's proposed indirect costs was clearly meritorious where the agency accepted, without any analysis, the awardee's unexplained final proposed rates, which were substantially less than those initially proposed, its historical rates, and its proposed ceiling rates. 2. General Accounting Office (GAO) recommends that protester be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its initial protest where the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action in response to the initial protest, which was clearly meritorious, until almost 2 months after the initial protest was filed and after submitting a report on the protest; GAO does not recommend the reimbursement of the costs of filing and pursuing supplemental protest grounds, which were clearly severable from the initial protest bases, because the agency did not unduly delay, but took corrective action in response to these protest grounds within 2 weeks of these grounds being raised, before the agency report on the supplemental protest grounds was due. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3/html/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3.pdf GAO/B-289096.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-289096-3 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-289096.3; PADCO, Inc.--Costs, B-289096.3, May 3, 2002;