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B-400198 1 (2008-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptawbo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General = = Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Sea Box, Inc. File: B-400198 Date: August 25, 2008 Robert A. Farber for the protester. Maj. William J. Nelson, Department of the Army, for the agency. Paul E. Jordan, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Determination to cancel invitation for bids after bid opening was unobjectionable where all bids exceeded funding allocated for project, notwithstanding protester's challenge to validity of funding estimate and reasonableness of low responsive bid. 2. After cancellation of solicitation, agency decision to lease storage containers under Economy Act, without conducting a new competition, was unobjectionable where lease was consistent with requirements of act and applicable regulations require that agency use pre-existing contract for all such leases. DECISION Sea Box, Inc., protests the cancellation, after bid opening, of invitation for bids (IFB) No. W912L1-08-B-0001, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Property and Fiscal Officer, Texas, for supply of dry storage containers (connexes) for units of the Texas Army National Guard (TXARNG). We deny the protest. The IFB contemplated the award of a fixed-priced contract for 238 20-foot connexes for use at local armories throughout Texas and for use by the 36' Infantry Division in support of brigades mobilizing for service in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This is the second solicitation for this requirement. The prior solicitation, a request for proposals set aside for small businesses, resulted in a contract in the amount of $624,750. Sea Box protested that award, challenging the awardee's small business status and its compliance with the Buy American Act (BAA). The agency took

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