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B-421517,B-421517.2 Jun 13, 2023 1 (2023-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaoowm0001 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: Abt Associates, Inc. File: B-421517; B-421517.2 Date: June 13, 2023 Daniel R. Forman, Esq., William B. O'Reilly, Esq., and Rina M. Gashaw, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Sara E. McGraw, Esq., and Elizabeth L. Biffl, Esq., Environmental Protection Agency, for the agency. David A. Edelstein, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, 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 record demonstrates that the agency reasonably canceled the solicitation based on concerns that the solicitation's performance work statement and evaluation criteria did not accurately reflect the agency's needs. DECISION Abt Associates Inc., of Rockville, Maryland, protests the cancellation of request for quotations (RFQ) No. 1588574, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for economics research and analysis. The protester argues that the agency lacked a reasonable basis to cancel the RFQ and that the cancellation was a pretext to avoid establishing a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with Abt. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On September 13, 2022, the agency issued the RFQ, seeking technical support for environmental economics research and analysis for the EPA's National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE). Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1; Agency Report (AR), Exh. B11, RFQ e-Buy Description at 1-2. The RFQ was issued to holders of General Services Administration Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts under special item number 541620, environmental consulting services. AR, Exh. B11, RFQ e-Buy Description at 2.

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