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The Tribunal is of the view that, absent a situation where an in-house counsel or other employee represents a litigant in a proceeding, the power to award costs does not include the power to compensate a litigant for the time spent by its employees in connection with the proceedings. 2 Similarly, the Tribunal has not generally awarded a litigant its disbursement costs incurred in association with an employee's participation in proceedings unless these costs are associated with an employee's attendance and/or appearance as a witness at a hearing in the proceedings. 3 The Tribunal is of the view that one employee acted as a representative of CCR in this proceeding within the meaning of representative 4 as defined by the Guidelines. For this employee, CCR claimed 7.6 days at $595 per day. According to Appendix B to the Guidelines, the allowable daily rate for an in-house representative is $400. The Tribunal sees no compelling reason to deviate from this amount. Therefore, the Tribunal allows in-house representatives' fees in the amount of $3,040. No tax is allowed in addition to this amount. With respect to the travel costs claimed, the Tribunal is of the view that these are related to the costs of bid preparation and follow-up, as opposed to filing and proceeding with the complaint. Therefore, the travel costs are not allowed.
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