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B-407972,B-407972.2 1 (2013-05-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpmy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Acc ; tabillty * ingity , Rei!abikty of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Latvian Connection, LLC File: B-407972; B-407972.2 Date: May 2, 2013 Keven L. Barnes, Latvian Connection, LLC, for the protester. Capt. Anthony F. Schiavetti, Department of the Army, for the agency. Matthew T. Crosby, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's decision to cancel solicitation is denied where record shows agency had reasonable basis for cancellation. DECISION Latvian Connection, LLC, of Kuwait City, Kuwait, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W912D1-13-R-0003 issued by the Department of the Army for a video wall at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. Latvian also protests the agency's decision to not post the solicitation on the FedBizOpps website and the agency's eventual decision to cancel the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was for a video wall consisting of a set of monitors with processing hardware and software to allow for the seamless display of multiple images. Contracting Officer's Statement 1; see also RFP at 3-11. As discussed below, a number of errors occurred during the solicitation process. On January 17, 2013, the agency posted a listing for the solicitation on usmilitarycontracting.com, a website used by the agency for publicizing solicitations aimed at local sources in Kuwait. Contracting Officer's Statement 3, 4. The listing included a link to a lengthy solicitation document. Soon after the solicitation was listed on the website, the contracting specialist discovered that the solicitation document that was linked to the listing was the solicitation document for a separate,

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