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B-410379 1 (2014-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadquh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release without redaction. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Ponsford, Ltd. File: B-410379 Date: December 11, 2014 Theodore P. Watson, Esq., Nicole L. Carter, Esq., and Leanna Ajour, Esq., Watson & Associates, LLC, for the protester. MAJ James W. Nelson and Scott N. Flesch, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Susan K. McAuliffe, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation requirement for professional level membership in the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works improperly restricts competition is denied where the protester has not shown that the membership requirement is not rationally related to the agency's achievement of its objectives. DECISION Ponsford, Ltd. protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. W91 QV1 -14- R-0087, issued by the Department of the Army for historical monument conservation and cleaning services at Arlington National Cemetery. The protester contends that a qualification requirement of the RFP, for professional level membership in the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC), is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. The RFP, issued on August 14, 2014 as a small business set-aside, sought proposals for the award of a fixed-price contract for a 12-month period to provide conservation and cleaning services of historic monuments and memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. RFP at 1. The selected contractor is required to provide, among other things, all qualified expert personnel necessary to clean and conserve selected statutes, monuments, and objects to assure the unimpaired longevity and stability of our nation's most sacred shrine and the final resting place

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