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B-419510,B-419510.2 Apr 16, 2021 1 (2021-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaolku0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Roche Diagnostics Corporation File: B-419510; B-419510.2 Date: April 16, 2021 Jonathan Aronie, Esq., and Nikole Snyder, Esq., Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, for the protester. Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Colonel Patricia S. Wiegman-Lenz, Josephine R. Farinelli, Esq., and Major Nicholas C. Frommelt, Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Alexander O. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging, as unduly restrictive of competition, the combination of laboratory analyzer requirements into a single solicitation is denied where the record shows that the combination of requirements is reasonably necessary to meet the agency's legitimate needs. 2. Protest challenging agency's interpretation of the solicitation as permitting the use of subcontractors to satisfy solicitation requirements is dismissed as untimely where the protester raised this argument in a piecemeal fashion. DECISION Roche Diagnostics Corporation, located in Indianapolis, Indiana, protests the terms of request for quotations (RFQ) No. FA4427-21-R-0007, issued by the Department of the Air Force for a complete core laboratory solution for chemistry laboratory analyzers for the medical treatment facility at the David Grant Medical Center (DGMC) at Travis Air Force Base Fairfield, California. The protester contends that the solicitation is unduly restrictive of competition and that the agency improperly converted the procurement from one seeking a single vendor to one that permits multi-vendor solutions. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The solicitation at issue arises from a recurring requirement for a complete core laboratory solution for DGMC. Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, Contracting Officer's

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