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B-411457.3 1 (2015-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrjf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Retro Environmental, Inc. File: B-411457.3 Date: August 19, 2015 Joseph C. Kovars, Esq., and James E. Edwards Jr., Esq., Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, for the protester. Maj. Jamal A. Rhinehardt, and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency lacked a compelling basis to cancel invitation for bids after bid opening and contract award is denied where contracting officer reasonably determined that solicitation contained an ambiguous specification that may have overstated that agency's minimum requirement and thus limited competition. DECISION Retro Environmental, Inc., of Sykesville, Maryland, a small business, protests the cancellation of invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912K6-15-B-0001 by the Department of the Army for asbestos abatement services at the Maryland Air National Guard operational and training facility building at Martin State Airport in Baltimore, Maryland. Retro argues that the cancellation of the IFB is improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The Army issued the solicitation on March 25, 2015, seeking bids to perform asbestos abatement services. IFB at 1 (Standard Form 33). On the announced bid opening date, April 9, the contracting officer conducted a public bid opening at which six bids were read. The bid from San Dow Construction, Inc. was $170,000, while three other bidders submitted lower prices. Contracting Officer's Statement at 1. After the concluding the bid opening, the contracting officer realized that there had been a seventh bid, submitted by Retro on April 8, which had been left in the

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