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B-414740.5 1 (2017-12-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduce0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Government and Military Certification Systems, Inc. File: B-414740.5 Date: December 19, 2017 Leigh Andrew Brand, for the protester. William B. Blake, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Peter D. Verchinski, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency is not required to contact all of an offeror's references, but must act reasonably in determining which to contact or not contact. DECISION Government and Military Certification Systems, Inc. (GMCS), of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a contract to Orion Registrar, Inc., of Arvada, Colorado, under request for proposals (RFP) No. D1 7PS00707, issued by the Department of the Interior (DOI), for an accredited registrar to audit the DOI's Office of Aviation Services (OAS). GMCS challenges the agency's evaluation of its proposal and the source selection decision. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The OAS is responsible for the Department of the Interior's aviation programs, and it is currently certified to International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2008 quality standards. The RFP was issued on July 13, 2017 as a small business set-aside pursuant to the commercial item acquisition and simplified acquisition procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 and 13, and sought to procure an accredited registrar to audit for registration and surveillance of the OAS' quality management system to ISO 9001:2015 standards. The RFP contemplated the award of a fixed-price contract for a base period of one year and two 1-year option periods. RFP at 1-2. Award was to be made on a best-value tradeoff basis considering management approach, technical capabilities, past performance, staffing, and price. Id. at 13.

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