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B-297815.2 1 (2006-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptasnu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Information Ventures, Inc. File: B-297815.2 Date: February 13, 2006 Bruce H. Kleinstein for the protester. Doris Gibson, Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging cancellation of solicitation is denied where the agency withdrew funding for the procurement; lack of funding provides a reasonable basis for cancellation even if the decision to cancel was prompted by a protest concerning the solicitation, unless it is shown that the decision to withdraw funding was the result of bad faith on the agency's part. DECISION Information Ventures, Inc. (IVI) protests the cancellation of solicitation No. 2006-Q-08296, issued by the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for services in support of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. The protester argues that the agency cancelled the solicitation in order to avoid responding to an earlier protest that it filed objecting to the terms of the solicitation. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued on December 22, 2005, called for various services in support of peer review activities by the agency, such as planning services related to peer review and other expert panels, and identifying and establishing contractual relationships with expert consultants. On January 3, 2006, IVI filed a protest arguing that the agency should have issued the solicitation as a total small business set-aside. We subsequently dismissed the protests as academic after the agency advised, by letter dated January 10, that the solicitation had been canceled. IVI then protested the cancellation, arguing that the agency had cancelled the solicitation to avoid

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