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B-419528.2 May 05, 2021 1 (2021-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaolry0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. The entire decision has been approved for public release. Matter of: AE Works, Ltd. File: B-419528.2 Date: May 5, 2021 Nicholas T. Solosky, Esq., Fox Rothschild LLP, for the protester. Tyler W. Brown, Esq., and Kathleen Ellis, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly cancelled a requirement for architect-engineer services is denied where the decision to cancel was reasonably based on agency concerns that insufficient funds were available. DECISION AE Works, Ltd. (AE Works), a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) of Sewickley, Pennsylvania, protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. 36C24620R0134, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for architect-engineer (A/E) services. The protester contends that the VA's decision to cancel the procurement was unreasonable and not made in good faith. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Generally, in acquiring A/E services, a contracting agency must publicly announce its requirements, evaluate the A/E performance data and qualifications statements on file as well as those submitted in response to the announcement, and select at least three firms for discussions without considering price. Negotiations concerning price are then conducted with the highest-ranked firms. See OLBN Architectural Serv., Inc., B-402444.4, B-402444.5, Oct. 4, 2010, 2011 CPD ¶ 55. On June 10, 2020, the VA posted a request on the beta.SAM.gov website for Standard Form (SF) 330 A/E Qualifications statements with a due date of July 13, 2020. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Request for SF-330 at 2, 7. The agency sought to award a fixed-price contract for A/E

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