https://www.gao.gov/products/136353

B-231889: Jul 13, 1988

A firm protested the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) cancellation of a solicitation for mailing and distribution services, contending that IRS improperly decided to perform the work in-house. GAO would not consider the protest, since it concurred a matter of executive branch policy. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

https://www.gao.gov/products/421271

B-231889: Jul 13, 1988

PROCUREMENT - Special Procurement Methods/Categories - In-house performance - Administrative discretion - GAO review DIGEST: Decision to cancel solicitation and to perform work in-house is a matter of executive policy that the General Accounting Office does not review where. The solicitation was not for the purposes of comparing the costs of in-house performance with the costs of contracting. We h...