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B-294193.2 1 (2004-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapnu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: ELEIT Technology, Inc. File: B-294193.2 Date: September 30, 2004 Billie Turmenne for the protester. Capt. Richard M. Sudder, Department of the Army, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where agency reasonably determined that its needs required the award of a single contract for a range of planning and management services rather than separate contracts for the various services, cancellation of request for proposals for a single category of services was justified. DECISION ELEIT Technology, Inc. protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. DABK15-03-R-0014, issued by the Department of the Army for new equipment fielding services at Fort Hood, Texas. The protester contends that cancellation of the RFP was unreasonable because the Army continues to require the services. We deny the protest. This protest follows an earlier protest by ELEIT objecting to the rejection of its proposal and the award of a contract under the subject solicitation to Aquila Management. In response to ELEIT's protest, the agency terminated the contract awarded to Aquila. It also cancelled the underlying RFP to restudy the government's needs, the basic requirement, and the procurement strategy. Upon notification from the Army that it intended to cancel the solicitation, we dismissed ELEIT's protest as academic. ELEIT then protested the agency decision to cancel the RFP, arguing that the Army should instead proceed with award to it. In response to the current protest, the Army explains that it is in the process of converting its forces to a modular configuration and that it has determined that awarding separate contracts for force modernization planning, new equipment

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