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B-415464.4,B-415464.5 1 (2018-12-10)

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GO U.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
Decision                                     Ia GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                               been approved for public release.

Matter of: Advancing Technology Systems II

File:     B-415464.4; B-415464.5

Date:     December 10, 2018

Robert J. Symon, Esq., Aron C. Beezley, Esq., Patrick R. Quigley, Esq., and Sarah S.
Osborne, Esq., Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, for the protester.
Jonathan A. Hardage, Esq., and John E. Wagner, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest alleging that agency's cancellation of solicitation was pretextual is denied where
the agency provided a reasonable basis for its cancellation decision.
DECISION

Advancing Technology Systems II (ATS), a small business located in Warren, Michigan,
challenges the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. W56HZV-1 6-R-L1 02,
issued by the Department of the Army for information technology (IT) support services
for the Detroit Arsenal.' The protester contends that the cancellation was a pretext to
avoid a competitive procurement and to avoid the resolution of protest issues.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On March 6, 2017, the Army issued the RFP, contemplating the award of an indefinite-
delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for IT support services for the Detroit Arsenal
in Warren, Michigan. On September 26, the agency awarded a contract for the


1 ATS is a mentor-prot6g6 8(a) joint venture consisting of Unified Business
Technologies, Inc. (UBT), the incumbent contractor for the IT support services
requirement, and a second company, Addon Services, LLC.

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