Protester Entitled to Bid Preparation and Proposal Costs and EAJA Fees Where Costs Reflected Work Undertaken as Result of Agency Errors; COFC No. 16-101C, Q Integrated Companies, LLC v. United States

Application for bid preparation and proposal costs, attorney’s fees, and related costs under the Equal Access to Justice Act is approved, where the protester was entitled to a portion of its bid preparation and proposal costs, even though it used similar proposals for 10 different areas of the disputed contract, and where the protester received all the relief available to it, even though its protest was only partially successful.