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B-417371.4,B-417371.5 1 (2020-06-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeblz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Qbase, LLC File: B-417371.4; B-417371.5 Date: June 26, 2020 Richard J. Conway, Esq., Dominique L. Casimir, Esq., and Michael J. Slattery, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Michael R. Bibbo, Esq., and Kevin E. Bolin, Esq., Defense Health Agency, 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 challenging agency's decision to cancel the solicitation following a GAO protest is denied where the record reflects that the agency identified substantial changes to its requirements that warranted canceling the solicitation and issuing a revised solicitation. DECISION Qbase, LLC, a small business located in Herndon, Virginia, protests the cancellation of request for quotation (RFQ) No. HT001 5-18-R-001 3, issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), Defense Health Agency (DHA), for information technology (IT) operations and sustainment services for DHA's Enterprise Systems Branch (ESB). Qbase also challenges DHA's decision to terminate a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) task order that had been issued to Qbase under the RFQ. Qbase contends that the agency's decision to cancel the solicitation and terminate the task order lacks a reasonable basis and was a pretext to avoid litigating a protest filed with our Office. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND DHA issued the RFQ on October 17, 2018, seeking a contractor to assist ESB in fulfilling its requirement to provide IT support services to the DOD customers in DHA's

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