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B-292883.2 1 (2004-01-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptapik0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Quality Technology, Inc. File: B-292883.2 Date: January 21, 2004 William M. Rosen, Esq., William M. Rosen Law Office, and Charlotte Rothenberg Rosen, Esq., Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky, for the protester. Richard E. Hurst, Esq., Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Cancellation of request for quotations was reasonable where quotations received were substantially higher than agency's available funding for requirement, and where agency decided to reassess its needs prior to resolicitation in light of canceled solicitation's apparent overstatement of requirements. DECISION Quality Technology, Inc. protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 030110, issued by the Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), for Enterprise Architecture Document (EAD) support services. The EAD defines the enterprise architecture required to ensure efficient use of information technology resources to meet the agency's mission and goals; the RFQ provides for the upgrade and update of the EAD. Quality, the incumbent contractor, contends that the cancellation lacks a reasonable basis and is only a pretext by the agency to avoid our Office's review of an earlier protest Quality filed challenging the agency's failure to solicit its quotation under the RFQ. We deny the protest. The agency issued the RFQ on September 3, 2003, to four Federal Supply Schedule vendors, but not to Quality. Although Quality obtained a copy of the solicitation from another vendor, it did not submit a quotation. On September 22, Quality filed a protest with our Office contending that the agency's failure to solicit its quotation

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