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 2016-06-24 U.S. Government Publishing Office 2004-03-19 monographic deposited born digital 5 p. GA 1.13:B-292901.4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4 P0b002ee18fd4c91d f:2929014 DGPO 2016-06-24 2016-06-24 GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4 B-292901.4 Comptroller General Decision

1. The Department of the Interior contends that GAO, in stating in Shields & Dean Concessions, Inc., B-292901.2, B-292901.3, Feb. 23, 2004, 2004 CPD P: ___ , that the National Park Service (NPS) *does not dispute* our Office*s authority to review a protest of the award of a concession contract pursuant to our bid protest authority under the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA), misunderstood the agency*s position. The decision therefore is modified to recognize that NPS in fact does not concede that GAO has authority under CICA to review concession contract protests. 2. While the Competition in Contracting Act (CICA) requires GAO, in fashioning a recommendation when it sustains a bid protest, to disregard any cost or disruption from the proper termination of a contract where the statute*s stay was overridden in the government*s *best interest,* in the absence of a clause that would permit the government to unilaterally terminate a contract *for convenience* a successful protester*s only remedy is reimbursement of proposal preparation and protest costs, since CICA does not require a GAO recommendation that the government breach a contract. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4/html/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4.pdf GAO/B-292901.4 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292901-4 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-292901.4; Shields & Dean Concessions, Inc.--Reconsideration, B-292901.4, March 19, 2004; Title 31 Section 717 31 U.S.C. 717