Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protests denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protests of Latvian Connection, LLC and Solution Managers International–USA, LLC, based on the decision of the Department of the Army, Army Contracting Command New Jersey, to amend, rather than cancel, a request for proposals (RFP), for energy-efficient,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Latvian Connection, LLC, regarding the terms of a request for proposals (RFP) issued by the Department of the Army for a video wall at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. The solicitation was for a video wall consisting
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: GAO denied the protest of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC (GLDD) regarding the post-bid opening cancellation of an invitation for bids (IFB), which was issued by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, for dredging services. The
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Kingdomware Technologies Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Cancellation of a FedBid buy after receipt of bids or quotations was reasonable, where the solicitation did not clearly inform vendors as to the nature of the procurement or the basis upon which award would be made. General
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: MedVet Development LLC Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest of cancellation of a solicitation after receipt of proposals and discussions is denied where the record shows that the agency reasonably concluded that the solicitation would not meet the agency’s needs. General Counsel PC Highlight: MedVet
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Business Computer Applications, Inc. Agency: Department of Health and Human Services Disposition: Protest Denied. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging an agency’s decision to cancel a task order solicitation is denied where the level of effort required in the solicitation had to be cut by 43 percent because of significant funding reductions.
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: Estrategy, Inc. Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest Denied in part and Dismissed in part. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency properly cancelled solicitation where the agency could not determine that any of the offerors’ proposed prices, which significantly exceeded the government estimate, were fair and reasonable. Protests of the terms of
Link: GAO Decision Protestor: NAS/CORP-TELMAH, Inc. Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest Denied. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Cancellation of solicitation in negotiated procurement is unobjectionable where agency’s changed requirements, including changed evaluation scheme, provided a reasonable basis for the cancellation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: NAS/CORP-TELMAH, Inc. protested the cancellation of an RFQ issued for a
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Veterans Affairs Disposition: Protest and request denied. Keywords: RFP Cancellation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: In a negotiated procurement, such as this one, a contracting agency has broad discretion in deciding whether to cancel a solicitation, and need only establish a reasonable basis for doing so. —————————————————————————————————————————– KNAPP Logistics Automation protests
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Cancellation of Solicitation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A contracting agency has broad discretion in deciding whether to cancel a solicitation and need only establish a reasonable basis for doing so. Moreover, even if an initial justification is unreasonable, that fact is immaterial, provided that another,
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protests denied. Keywords: Cancellation of a Solicitation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Where a protester alleges that an agency’s rationale for cancelling an RFP is a pretext to avoid resolving a protest, GAO reviews that agency’s rationale to ensure that the agency has a reasonable basis for the cancellation.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. Keywords: Contract Termination/ RFP Cancellation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: A procuring agency has broad authority to cancel an RFP, and needs only a reasonable basis to do so. Such a reasonable basis exists where a solicitation does not present a reasonably accurate representation of the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest sustained. Keywords: Cancellation General Counsel P.C. Highlight: An agency may cancel an existing solicitation where it has a reasonable basis for doing so. The potential for cost savings provides a reasonable basis for cancellation. —————————————————————————————————————————– The General Services Administration (GSA) issued a solicitation for offers (SFO), for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Federal Emergency Management Agency Disposition: Protest denied; request for reimbursement denied in part and sustained in part. Keywords: Cancellation of RFP; Award of Protest Costs General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Cancellation of a procurement is justified where the Agency determines that its needs have changed and the RFP as written no longer
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency decision to cancel request for quotations was reasonable where, due to the passage of time and other factors, the agency requirement no longer exists. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Mr. Scott alleges that the stated reasons for the cancellation of the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Air Force Disposition: Protest dismissed. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: GAO will generally not review agency’s decision to cancel a solicitation to perform the work in-house because decision whether to perform work in-house is generally a matter of executive branch policy. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: Aleut contends that the Air
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: General Services Administration Disposition: Protest sustained. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging the cancellation of a request for quotations (RFQ) and issuance of orders on a sole-source basis to a non-profit agency under the authority of the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act is sustained where the acquired items are not on the procurement list maintained
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Protest challenging agency’s decision to cancel solicitation is denied where the cancellation decision was reasonably based on determination that the agency’s requirements have changed since the time the solicitation was issued. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: ARI argues that the agency’s decision
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Army Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably cancelled solicitation for work reception and management services where the record establishes lack of funding. General Counsel P.C. Highlight: VetPride complains that the Army cancelled the solicitation after five months of negotiations and contends that the agency acted unreasonably
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Interior Disposition: Protest denied. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency acted reasonably when it terminated protester’s contract for convenience and cancelled the underlying solicitation where the solicitation’s maximum estimated quantities and maximum ordering values did not reflect the agency’s requirements due to a reduction in program funding. General Counsel P.C.
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition: Protests denied. GAO Digest: Agency’s cancellation of solicitations for parts was reasonable where the agency discovered that obtaining one of the parts under an existing contract would be more advantageous to the government than continuing with the procurement and that it no longer had a requirement for
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of the Navy Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency’s decision to cancel solicitation and obtain its requirements through an interagency agreement is not objectionable where it is based on reasonable conclusion that utilizing the interagency agreement would result in substantial cost savings as compared with an award under the
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Transportation Disposition: Protests denied in part and dismissed in part. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Agency reasonably cancelled solicitation based on concerns, supported by the record, that the primary author of the solicitation’s statement of work and evaluation factors had a conflict of interest with regard to one offeror. GAO is
Link: GAO Opinion Agency: Department of Homeland Security Disposition: Protest denied. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GAO Digest: Procuring agency had a reasonable basis to cancel request for proposals for the design and construction of a Rescue Swimmer Training Facility where the solicitation no longer accurately reflects the agency’s requirements and substantial changes to the scope of the project