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B-295882 1 (2005-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Firetech Automatic Sprinkler File: B-295882 Date: May 4, 2005 A. W. Pharris for the protester. Mary E. Carney, Esq., and Spencer C. Bassett, Esq., Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries, 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 Protest of agency's cancellation of solicitation after receipt of quotations is denied where record supports reasonableness of cancellation due to lack of available funding. DECISION Firetech Automatic Sprinkler protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. VC0088-05, issued by the Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries (FPI), for the installation of a sprinkler system. Firetech contends that the agency lacked a reasonable basis for the cancellation. Firetech further challenges the agency's stated intention to perform the work in-house. We deny the protest. Three quotations were received by the RFQ's January 7, 2005 closing time. Firetech's quotation, among other things, omitted the firm's name and experience information; the firm was given an opportunity to submit the missing quotation information. The agency's subsequent review of the quotations, however, revealed that they all exceeded the government's estimate for the work. The contracting officer, who confimed the agency's cost estimate, recognized that the estimate served as the basis for the limited funding committed for the project. After confirming that no additional funds were available to support a selection from the quotations received under the RFQ, the contracting officer canceled the solicitation. This protest followed.

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