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B-409103 1 (2014-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Noonan & Associates File: B-409103 Date: January 10, 2014 Patricia B. Noonan, Noonan & Associates, for the protester. William R. Korth, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency reasonably concluded that the protester had an organizational conflict of interest and properly eliminated it from the competition under a solicitation for the award of a training course, where the agency found that the protester's prior award of a curriculum development contract, which included the training course, created the appearance of an unfair competitive advantage. DECISION Noonan & Associates, of Sedalia, Colorado, protests its exclusion from the competition under request for quotations (RFQ) No. VA786-13R-00386, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs, National Cemetery Administration (NCA), for NCA cemetery director intern mentor/prot6g6 training. The agency eliminated Noonan from the competition based on the contracting officer's determination that Noonan had an organizational conflict of interest (OCI) arising from its work on a related curriculum development contract awarded in 2012, which included requirements to review the curriculum for the mentor/prot6g6 training requirement solicited here. Noonan, who was the awardee of the predecessor mentor/prot6g6 training requirement, contends that the contracting officer's determination was unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The NCA cemetery director intern program is a two-year long training program designed to provide a high-quality, development experience to employees who are

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