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B-420925.2 Nov 21, 2022 1 (2022-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaonxs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Monbo Group International File: B-420925.2 Date: November 21, 2022 Dee Monbo, Monbo Group International, for the protester. David A. Lank, Esq., Department of Health and Human Services, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging the agency's decision to take corrective action by cancelling solicitation is denied where the agency had a reasonable basis to cancel the solicitation. 2. Protest challenging the agency's decision to resolicit requirement as a task order issued under an existing contract vehicle is dismissed where the task order value falls below the threshold for our Office's task order jurisdiction. DECISION Monbo Group International, a small business of Owings Mills, Maryland, protests the corrective action being taken by the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), following Monbo's earlier protest of FDA's issuance of a task order to Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Inc., of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The task order was issued under request for quotations (RFQ) No. FDA-22-RFQ-1250996, for a research specialist to support FDA's diversity research on preparedness for the ongoing challenges to HIV diagnostics and blood safety. The protester maintains that the agency's decision to cancel the solicitation and acquire the position via a task order under a separate contract vehicle is improper. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND In May 2022, the agency issued the solicitation, under General Services Administration (GSA) schedule contract GS-02F-0197X, for a post-doctoral research specialist level 2/biologist II position. AR, Tab 3, RFQ, Statement of Work at 1. The solicitation's

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