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B-419893,B-419893.6 Sep 15, 2021 1 (2021-09-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaomfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O 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 Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: KPaul Properties, LLC File: B-419893; B-419893.6 Date: September 15, 2021 J. Bradley Reaves, Esq., and Beth V. McMahon, Esq., ReavesColey, PLLC, for the protester. Peter G. Hartman, Esq., Roger A. Hipp, Esq., Department of Homeland Security, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John Sorrenti, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that requirement to submit International Organization for Standardization certification with phase I proposal is unduly restrictive of competition is denied where requirement is reasonably related to agency's needs. 2. Protest that agency was required to allow protester to elect to participate in phase II of procurement is denied where protester was eliminated following a compliance check, and its phase I proposal was not evaluated. 3. Protest that agency could not eliminate protester's proposal from the competition for failing to provide International Organization for Standardization certification with its phase I proposal without referring the matter to the Small Business Administration under its certificate of competency procedure is denied where certification is a technical evaluation criterion, and not a responsibility criterion. DECISION KPaul Properties, LLC, a small business of Indianapolis, Indiana, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 70RTAC21 R00000003, issued by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for information technology services. KPaul asserts that the requirement for offerors to submit with phase I proposals either International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification 9001:2015 quality management systems and/or ISO certification 20243:2018 open trusted technology provider standards is unduly restrictive of competition. KPaul further protests that the agency failed to follow the terms of the solicitation when it eliminated the firm from the competition without evaluating KPaul's phase I proposal because KPaul did not provide

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