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B-421737.2 Oct 26, 2023 1 (2023-10-26)

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                    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. The entire decision has been
                                           approved for public release.

Matter of:   QBE  LLC

File:        B-421737.2

Date:        October 26, 2023

John R. Tolle, Esq., and H. Todd Whay, Esq., Baker, Cronogue, Tolle & Werfel, LLP, for
the protester.
Colonel Frank Yoon, Heather L. Thom, Esq., and Ashley R. Ruhe, Esq., Department of
the Air Force, for the agency.
Michelle Litteken, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Protest that agency improperly canceled solicitation is denied where the record
demonstrates that the agency reasonably determined that the solicitation no longer
reflected its requirements.
DECISION

QBE,  LLC, a small business of Haymarket, Virginia, protests the cancellation of a
request for proposals (RFP), issued by the Department of the Air Force, for all
management,   technical, and non-technical skills needed for modernizing and hardening
allied digital infrastructure.1 The protester contends that the agency failed to provide a
reasonable basis for the cancellation.

We  deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

In the fall of 2021, the Department of the Army's Program Executive Office Enterprise
Information Systems asked the Air Force to provide foreign military sales acquisition
and contracting assistance for the requirement at issue here, referred to as the program


1 The agency did not assign an identification number to the solicitation; it refers to it in
the record as Contract No. FA7146-23-D-0002 Request for Proposal. Memorandum
of Law (MOL) at 1.

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