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B-410968.3 1 (2015-12-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrtj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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 - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Starry Associates, Inc. File: B-410968.3 Date: December 23, 2015 Lars E. Anderson, Esq., James Y. Boland, Esq., and Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., Venable LLP, for the protester. Brian E. Hildebrandt, Esq., and Christian P. Maimone, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Nora K. Adkins, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly cancelled the solicitation is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the solicitation did not meet its needs and reissuing a revised solicitation would promote competition. DECISION Starry Associates, Inc., a small business, of Annapolis, Maryland, protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 15-233-SOL-00023 issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for information technology (IT) business operations support services. Starry argues that the agency's cancellation lacks a reasonable basis and was a pretext to avoid implementing a prior decision by our Office, which the protester alleges would have resulted in an award to Starry. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation was posted to the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy portal on November 13, 2014. Contracting Officer (CO) Statement (B-410968.2) at 1. 1 The RFQ was issued in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 1 Documents filed in response to Starry's prior protest, which was sustained by our Office, are cited to in the current decision by B-number. HHS generally used a (continued...)

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