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B-410152 1 (2014-10-22)

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         G    A    O                                                   Comptroller General
      Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability                          of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548



         Decision


         Matter of:   Brand Consulting Group, Inc.

         File:        B-410152

         Date:     October 22, 2014

         Leigh A. Brand, Brand Consulting Group, Inc., for the protester.
         Mark Machiedo, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency.
         Robert T. Wu, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
         participated in the preparation of the decision.
         DIGEST

         Protest that contracting agency included unrelated requirements in its solicitation is
         denied where the record shows that the solicitation reasonably articulates the
         agency's needs; allegations that elements of the evaluation criteria are unnecessary
         and overly restrictive are dismissed as lacking a valid basis.
         DECISION

         Brand Consulting Group, Inc., of Waccabuc, New York, protests the terms of
         request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA243-14-Q-1368 issued by the Department of
         Veterans Affairs (VA) for ISO 9001-2008 sterile processing consulting services.
         Brand argues that various aspects of the RFQ's evaluation scheme are overly
         restrictive and unnecessary to perform the work successfully.

         We deny the protest in part and dismiss it in part.

         The RFQ, issued on July 18, 2014, contemplated the issuance of an order utilizing
         the General Services Administration's (GSA) e-Buy system to obtain ISO 9001-
         2008 sterile processing consulting services.' Legal Memorandum at 1. The RFQ

         1 ISO stands for the International Organization for Standardization. ISO website,
         available at http://www.iso.org/iso/home/about. As explained by ISO, because
         International Organization for Standardization would have different acronyms in
         different languages, its founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is
         derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Id.

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