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B-406350,B-406350.2 1 (2012-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadouj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A-, G A O0 Comptroller General & N Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Cygnus Corporation File: B-406350; B-406350.2 Date: April 11,2012 Hilary S. Cairnie, Esq., Baker & Hostetler LLP, for the protester. Jason Blindauer, Esq., Sam Q. Le, Esq., National Institutes of Health, for the agency. Gary R. Allen, Esq., and Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that task orders for scientific, professional and technical support services were outside the scope of a requirements contract is denied where the contract's statement of work and illustrative labor categories reasonably identified these services. 2. Protest that an agency violated various small business rules and requirements by cancelling a solicitation set aside for small businesses without consulting the Small Business Administration, and by ordering the services under an existing contract without considering whether two or more small businesses could perform, is dismissed as untimely where the protester did not diligently pursue its grounds of protest. DECISION Cygnus Corporation of Rockville, Maryland, protests the decision of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue task orders for scientific, professional, and technical support services for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), located in Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana, under a National Institutes of Health (NIH) requirements contract (Contract No. HHSN-271-2010-000051 (Requirements Contract)), which NIH has

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