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B-416981.5 1 (2020-01-24)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States
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                                            DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                          The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                  a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                         1been approved for public release.


Matter of:  G2 Global Solutions, LLC

File:        B-416981.5

Date:       January 24, 2020

Isaias Alba IV, Esq., Timothy F. Valley, Esq., Anthony M. Batt, Esq., and Lauren R.
Brier, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester.
Michael Ahl, Esq., Max D. Houtz, Esq., Christopher Kovach, Esq., Gregory A. Moritz,
Esq., Defense Intelligence Agency, for the agency.
Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest challenging the agency's decision to take corrective action by terminating the
award of a task order to the protester, cancelling the solicitation, and devising a new
acquisition strategy is denied where the record shows that the agency's decision to take
corrective action was reasonable and supported by the record.
DECISION

G2 Global Solutions, LLC (G2), a small business of Gainesville, Virginia, protests the
decision by the Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), to
take corrective action in response to a protest filed by Grand Ground Enterprise, LLC,
d/b/a Advisory Technical Consultants (ATC), a small business of Washington, D.C.,
under request for quotations (RFQ) No. HHM402-18-Q-0002, for operational counter-
intelligence (CI) analysis support services. G2 argues that the agency's decision to
terminate the firm's order and cancel the solicitation is unreasonable.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

On May 3, 2018, DIA posted the RFQ through the General Services Administration's
(GSA) e-Buy system. Agency Report (AR), Tab 2.1, Contracting Officer's Statement
(COS), at 1; Tab 9, Contracting Officer's Memorandum for Record (CO MFR), at 1. The
RFQ was set aside for 8(a) small business vendors holding a GSA Federal Supply
Schedule (FSS), Professional Services Schedule, Mission Oriented Business Integrated

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