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B-292502,B-292502.2,B-292503,B-292503.2 1 (2003-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacykn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General .. . .Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: DataTrak Consulting, Inc. File: B-292502; B-292502.2; B-292503; B-292503.2 Date: September 26, 2003 Terry L. Pechota, Esq., Pechota Leach & Dewell LLP, and Karen D. Powell, Esq., Petrillo & Powell, PLLC, for the protester. Michael Colvin, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Paula A. Williams, Esq., Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency had a reasonable basis to cancel request for quotations and recompete requirement for third party billing support services where the only quote that was received in response to the initial solicitation was evaluated as unacceptable and the record shows that during the course of evaluation the agency reasonably concluded that initial solicitation no longer meets the agency's needs. DECISION DataTrak Consulting, Inc. protests the evaluation of its quotation as unacceptable and the subsequent cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 03-085, issued by the Indian Health Service (IHS), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a Buy-Indian set aside for third party billing support services at the Ft. Berthold Service Unit/Minnetohe IHS clinic in North Dakota. DataTrak also protests the terms of the revised solicitation, RFQ No. 03-099, issued after cancellation of the initial solicitation. DataTrak challenges the agency's decision on numerous grounds primarily alleging that the agency's evaluation of its quotation was inconsistent with the RFQ evaluation factors and was inadequately documented, and that the agency acted in bad faith in order to avoid issuing a purchase order to DataTrak. The protester also contends that the revised RFQ is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protests.

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