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B-416042 1 (2018-05-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO D ecision Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Computer World Services Corporation File: B-416042 Date: May 22, 2018 Lee Dougherty, Esq., and Katerine S. Saphier, Esq., Effectus PLLC, for the protester. Tudo N. Pham, Esq., and Morgan L. Cosby, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Young S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, 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's statement of work no longer met its needs. DECISION Computer World Services Corp. (CWSC) of Washington, DC, protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. 191 NLE1 8R0001 issued by the Department of State (DOS), for biometric expertise services. The protester argues that the agency's decision to cancel the solicitation lacks a reasonable basis and was a pretext to avoid awarding the contract to CWSC. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On November 10, 2017, the Department of State issued the solicitation as a set-aside for historically underutilized business zone (HUBZone) small businesses. Contracting Officer Statement (COS) at 1; Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, RFP, at 2. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract with a 1-year base period and two 1-year options. RFP at 21-22. Proposals were to be evaluated based on the following factors: (1) technical/past performance; (2) key personnel; and (3) price. Id. at 23-24. The evaluation factors were listed in descending order of importance, and non-price factors, when combined, were more important than price. Id. at 23. The solicitation sought to obtain biometric expertise services to guide the planning, documentation, development, testing, operations and maintenance of applications,

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