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B-419989.6,B-419989.7 Feb 28, 2023 1 (2023-02-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaooih0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Bear Mountainside Realty, LLC File: B-419989.6; B-419989.7 Date: February 28, 2023 Gordon Griffin, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Richard Ariel, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for the protester. Leigh Erin S. Izzo, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Samantha S. Lee, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency improperly canceled a solicitation is denied where the agency reasonably determined that the solicitation no longer reflected its requirements. DECISION Bear Mountainside Realty LLC, a small business of Mountainside, New Jersey, protests the cancellation of General Services Administration (GSA) solicitation No. 7NJ2243, for commercial office space for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the area of Mountainside and Springfield, New Jersey. The protester contends that the agency's decision to cancel the solicitation lacks a reasonable basis and was a pretext to avoid awarding a lease to Bear Mountainside. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND For more than a decade, the IRS has occupied two leased office spaces in the area of Mountainside and Springfield, New Jersey;1 the leases--referred to as Mountainside and Springfield--are currently held by GSA and expire this year. Contracting Officer's 1 Mountainside and Springfield are neighboring areas in Union County, New Jersey. See National Geospatial Program, National Map Viewer, https://apps.nationalmap.gov/ viewer/.

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