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B-410648.2,B-410648.3 1 (2015-03-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrar0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AeroSage LLC File: B-410648.2; B-410648.3 Date: March 20, 2015 David M. Snyder, AeroSage LLC, for the protester. Jeanne S. Morris, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's decision to cancel a solicitation and award an order to a single source is denied where the record shows that the agency's order was reasonable under the circumstances, and provides no basis to question the agency's decision to cancel the original solicitation. DECISION AeroSage LLC, of Tampa, Florida, protests the decision by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to cancel solicitation No. VA241-15-Q-0003 and the award of order No. VA241-15-P-0353 to Innovative Federal Operations Group, LLC, of Vista, California, for the delivery of 20,000 gallons of fuel oil to an agency facility in West Haven, Connecticut. AeroSage argues that the agency's cancellation of the original solicitation, after awarding the same requirement under a separate procurement, was improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The agency issued solicitation No. VA241-15-Q-0003 (original solicitation) on October 7, 2014, as a small business set-aside for the purchase of an estimated quantity of 30,000 gallons of fuel oil to be delivered to the West Haven VA Medical Center (WHMC) over a one-year performance period. Agency Legal Memorandum at 1. On October 10, prior to the closing time for the solicitation, AeroSage submitted a timely protest arguing that the solicitation improperly failed to include an economic price adjustment clause, lacked a definite quantity, and was required to

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