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B-418828.8 Jul 23, 2021 1 (2021-07-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaolzk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has / 7been approved for public release. Matter of: Vertex Aerospace, LLC File: B-418828.8 Date: July 23, 2021 J. Alex Ward, Esq., W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., Alissandra D. Young, Esq., and Lyle F. Hedgecock, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Anuj Vohra, Esq., Christian N. Curran, Esq., and William B. O'Reilly, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for PAE Aviation and Technical Services LLC, the intervenor. Jason B. Nelson, Esq., Thomas J. Florip, Esq., and Christopher Erly, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging cancellation of solicitation is denied where the agency reasonably determined that a change in requirements exceeded what offerors were likely to have anticipated when the solicitation was originally issued. 2. Protest challenging the placement of an interim sole-source contract is denied where the agency reasonably determined that only one offeror could provide the highly specialized services in question without causing an unacceptable delay. DECISION Vertex Aerospace, LLC, of Madison, Mississippi, protests the cancellation of fair opportunity submission request (FOSR) No. N00421-20-TO-0001, issued by the Department of the Navy for contractor logistics support, including organizational, select intermediate, and limited depot level maintenance and logistics support services for F-5N/F and F-16A/B Adversary Program aircraft. In addition, Vertex protests the Navy's decision to award an interim sole-source contract to PAE Aviation and Technical Services, LLC, of Arlington, Virginia, for contractor logistics support for F-5 N/F aircraft. Vertex argues that the cancellation of the solicitation was unreasonable and the sole-source award to PAE was improper.1 1 The Navy requested that our Office decide this protest using the express option time periods available under our Bid Protest Regulations, 4 C.F.R. § 21.10. In light of the

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