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B-419968.4,B-419968.5,B-419968.6 Sep 12, 2023 1 (2023-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaopei0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 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 been approved for public release. Matter of: Firebird Analytical Solutions and Technologies, Inc. File: B-419968.4; B-419968.5; B-419968.6 Date: September 12, 2023 Devon Hewitt, Esq., Potomac Law Group, PLLC, for the protester. Michael Noyes, Esq., and Nicole Hutchinson, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of agency's cancellation of a solicitation following corrective action is denied where the agency's decision to move the solicited services in-house and determination that the solicitation no longer accurately reflected its requirements had a reasonable basis. DECISION Firebird Analytical Solutions and Technologies, Inc., a service-disabled veteran-owned small business of Arlington, Virginia, protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 70US0920Q70090079, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), United States Secret Service, for the establishment of a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) for financial investigative support. The decision to cancel the solicitation followed the agency's partial implementation of corrective action in response to a protest by another vendor. Firebird contends that the agency had no reasonable basis to cancel the solicitation and that the cancellation was a pretext to avoid completing the corrective action and future protests. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On July 7, 2020, the agency issued the RFQ to vendors holding General Services Administration (GSA), federal supply schedule (FSS) contracts under the Professional Services Schedule using the procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR)

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