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B-412655.3 1 (2016-06-29)

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         G    A    O                                                   Comptroller General
      Accountability * Integrity * Reliability                         of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
                                                       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:   Social Impact, Inc.

         File:        B-412655.3

         Date:        June 29, 2016

         Pamela J. Mazza, Esq., Megan C. Connor, Esq., Julia Di Vito, Esq., and Michelle E.
         Litteken, Esq., Piliero Mazza PLLC, for the protester.
         R. Ren6 Dupuy, Esq., United States Agency for International Development,
         for the agency.
         Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the
         General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest of an agency's cancellation of a solicitation following corrective action in
         response to a protest is denied where the record demonstrates that the agency
         reasonably determined that the solicitation no longer accurately reflected its
         requirements.
         DECISION

         Social Impact, Inc., of Arlington, Virginia, protests the cancellation of request for
         proposals (RFP) No. SOL-621-15-000006, issued by the United States Agency for
         International Development (USAID) for support for the agency's Monitoring,
         Evaluation, and Learning Program (MELP) in Tanzania. The protester contends
         that the cancellation was improper.

         We deny the protest.

         BACKGROUND

         On March 18, 2015, USAID issued the RFP seeking proposals for MELP as part of
         the implementation of USAID's 2015-2019 Country Development Cooperation
         Strategy (CDCS).1 RFP at 1, 13. The MELP contractor would provide continuous,

         1 The purpose of MELP is to provide technical and advisory services to the
         USAID/Tanzania Mission's development objective teams and implementing partners
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