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B-298883 1 (2006-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptassl0001 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: Management Solutions, L.C. d/b/a EssTech Engineering File: B-298883; B-298883.2 Date: December 13, 2006 Donald A. Stadtler for the protester. Brian E. Toland, Esq., U.S. Army Materiel Command, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) was reasonable where, after issuance of the RFP, the agency determined that it was required to satisfy its requirement from Federal Prison Industries under Federal Acquisition Regulation § 8.602. DECISION Management Solutions, L.C. d/b/a EssTech Engineering protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. W52H09-06-R-0314, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Materiel Command, for 809 indicator control subassemblies. Management Solutions argues that the agency did not have a reasonable basis for canceling the solicitation and also challenges the agency's concurrent decision to obtain the requirement from Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI), arguing that the RFP instead should have been set aside for Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) small businesses. We deny the protest. On May 11, 2006, the Army issued the RFP as a small business set-aside, with a closing date of June 13. Prior to the closing date, Management Solutions sent the contracting officer several e-mail messages requesting that the solicitation be set aside for HUBZone small businesses. As a consequence of those requests, the contracting officer amended the RFP's closing date and issued a sources sought

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