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B-408337,B-408337.2 1 (2013-08-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadprd0001 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: Vinculum Solutions, Inc. File: B-408337; B-408337.2 Date: August 5, 2013 Daniel S. Koch, Esq., Miles & Stockbridge PC, for the protester. Marcia G. Madsen, Esq., and David F. Dowd, Esq., Mayer Brown LLP, for Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., an intervenor. Navid Mehrjou, Esq., Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and David A. Ashen, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency had a reasonable basis to cancel solicitation where, based on budget concerns caused by sequestration, the agency determined to perform the services in-house. DECISION Vinculum Solutions, Inc. (VSI), of Broomes Island, Maryland, protests the Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) cancellation of request for technical cost proposals (RFTCP) No. 4094, for support services for the earned income tax credit (EITC) program office. Vinculum asserts that the agency improperly cancelled the procurement so that it could award a sole source contract for the same services to Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. (BAH), of McLean, Virginia. We deny the protest. RFTCP 4094 was issued on August 14, 2012 under the agency's Total Information Processing Support Services-4 (TIPSS-4) multiple-award, indefinite- delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The estimated value of the requirement was $27,004,847. Agency Report (AR), Tab 16, Independent Government Cost Estimate. Competition for the contract was limited to small business concerns in the management business operations support services (MBOSS) task area. The services were then being performed by BAH under a task order issued pursuant to its TIPSS-3 contract. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. After conducting

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