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B-417475.5,B-417475.6 1 (2020-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeami0001 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. The entire decision has now 1been approved for public release. Matter of: Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC File: B-417475.5; B-417475.6 Date: January 2, 2020 W. Brad English, Esq., Emily J. Chancey, Esq., and Michael W. Rich, Esq., Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC, for the protester. Caleb Pearson, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. April Y. Shields, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's decision to cancel solicitation following GAO's sustain of a prior protest is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency's decision was reasonable. DECISION Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC, of Blacksburg, Virginia, protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1263951900036, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), for information technology services. The protester contends that the agency's decision to cancel the RFQ lacks a reasonable basis and was a pretext to avoid reevaluating quotations after our Office sustained its prior protest. Harmonia Holdings Grp., LLC, B-417475.3, B-417475.4, Sept. 23, 2019, 2019 CPD T 333. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On November 19, 2018, the agency issued the RFQ as a total small business set-aside pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation subpart 8.4 to vendors holding contracts under the General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule No. 70 (Information Technology). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS), B-417475.3, B-417475.4, Attachment C, Revised RFQ, Dec. 18, 2018. The RFQ contemplated the issuance of a task order for information technology services to support three APHIS software systems, referred to collectively as the Phytosanitary Certificate

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