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B-416390.5 1 (2019-05-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 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 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Abacus Technology Corporation File: B-416390.5 Date: May 7, 2019 Gregory R. Hallmark, Esq., and Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, and Alexander B. Ginsberg, Esq., and Meghan D. Doherty, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, for the protester. Holly A. Roth, Esq., Elizabeth G. Leavy, Esq., and Lawrence P. Block, Esq., Reed Smith LLP, for Salient CRGT, Inc., the intervenor. John Cornell, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest alleging that the agency improperly cancelled a solicitation for the issuance of a task order is denied where the record demonstrates that the expiration date of the underlying indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract prevented the agency from issuing a task order with a period of performance that adequately met its needs. DECISION Abacus Technology Corporation (Abacus), of Chevy Chase, Maryland, protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. HSSCCG-1 7-R-0001 0, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), for information technology services. The protester contends that the agency lacked a reasonable basis to cancel the solicitation and that the cancellation was a pretext to avoid defending against a possible future protest. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 27, 2017, USCIS issued the solicitation pursuant to the provisions of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) subpart 16.5 to firms holding DHS Enterprise Acquisition

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