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B-288099.3 1 (2001-09-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamrf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Holiday Inn; Baymont Inn & Suites File: B-288099.3; B-288099.4 Date: September 20, 2001 Phillip E. Johnson, Federal Contract Specialists, Inc., for the protesters. Col. Michael R. Neds and Capt. Anissa N. Parekh, Department of the Army, for the agency. Aldo A. Benejam, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Cancellation of solicitation to provide meals, lodging, and transportation for applicants at a military entrance processing station is not objectionable where the agency had a reasonable basis for the cancellation. DECISION Holiday Inn and Baymont Inn & Suites protest the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. DABT23-01-R-0043, issued by the Department of the Army to provide meals, lodging, and transportation for applicants processing at the military entrance processing station in Nashville, Tennessee. The protesters contend that the cancellation was the result of the agency's lack of advance planning, and in retaliation for their earlier protests challenging the unrestricted nature of this RFP and other solicitations for similar services. We deny the protests. The agency issued the RFP unrestricted on June 1, 2001, contemplating the award of a fixed-price, requirements contract to provide the required services for a base year, with up to four 1-year options. On June 15, Holiday Inn and Baymont filed protests with our Office challenging the contracting officer's (CO) decision not to set the solicitation aside exclusively for small business participation. In those protests, the firms argued that since they were both small businesses, the agency was required to set the RFP aside exclusively for small businesses. See Federal Acquisition Regulation § 19.502-2(b); American Med. Response of Conn., Inc., B-278457, Jan. 30, 1998, 98-1 CPD 44 at 2.

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