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B-311070 1 (2008-04-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavzb0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: North Shore Medical Labs, Inc.; Advanced BioMedical Laboratories, LLC File: B-311070; B-311070.2 Date: April 21, 2008 Adam W. Downs, Esq., Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP, for North Shore Medical Labs, Inc.; and Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Philip M. Dearborn, Esq., Gunjan R. Talati, Esq., Desiree Lomer-Clarke, Esq., and Isaias Alba IV, Esq., PilieroMazza PLLC, for Advanced BioMedical Laboratories, LLC, the protesters. Capt. Charles D. Halverson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protests against cancellation of solicitation are denied where agency reasonably determined that the solicitation did not adequately set forth the agency's needs and that enhanced competition could result from a change in the requirements. DECISION North Shore Medical Labs, Inc. (NSML) and Advanced Biomedical Laboratories, LLC, (ABML) protests the cancellation of request for proposals (RFP) No. W81K04-07-R- 0019, a small business set-aside issued by the Department of the Army, for laboratory services. The protesters contend that the agency lacks a reasonable basis for the cancellation and that the agency should instead have amended the solicitation, held discussions and requested revised proposals. We deny the protests. This RFP is for a contractor to provide testing services for the detection of antibodies that work against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) for various military organizations. These services have been provided by a large business since 1997. Based upon market research, the agency decided that this requirement could be set aside for small business concerns. A solicitation for these services, set aside for small business concerns, was issued, but was ultimately cancelled on March 27,

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