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B-414623.2,B-414623.3 1 (2017-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtop0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Tien Walker File: B-414623.2; B-414623.3 Date: July 10, 2017 Tien Walker for the protester. Tudo N. Pham, Esq., Department of State, for the agency. Louis A. Chiarella, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST An agency reasonably canceled its solicitation where the agency's requirements were time-dependent, and adversely impacted by the statutory requirement to stay contract award in response to an earlier protest. DECISION Tien Walker, a small business of Reno, Nevada, protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. SAQMMA1 7Q0149, issued by the Department of State (DoS) for public opinion polling surveys to be conducted in South Asia. Tien Walker argues that DoS improperly canceled the solicitation as a pretext to avoid GAO's review of an earlier protest. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFQ was issued on April 20, 2017, as a combined Synopsis/Notice of Intent to Sole Source, for two nationwide surveys in South Asia. RFQ at 1-2; Contracting Officer's' Statement (COS) at 1-2. Specifically, the contractor was to conduct two, nationally- representative public opinion surveys in Afghanistan, to be conducted sequentially (also referred to as waves), with the first survey to be completed before the start of the Muslim observance of Ramadan (May 26). COS at 1-2. The purpose of the surveys was to provide US policy-makers with two separate readings of Afghan public opinion this year (2017). Id. at 1. Additionally, for security reasons, the RFQ listed only the general, geographic region in which the surveys were to be conducted and required

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