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B-310747 1 (2008-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadave0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * 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 redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: North Shore Medical Labs, Inc. File: B-310747 Date: February 6, 2008 Adam W. Downs, Esq., Welby, Brady & Greenblatt, LLP, for the protester. Diane L. Celotto, Esq., Department of the Navy; John W. Klein, Esq., and Laura Mann Eyester, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Eric M. Ransom, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preperation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the solicitation's corporate experience requirement is unduly restrictive is denied where the record shows that the provision is reasonably related to the agency's needs. 2. Agency determination not to set aside a procurement for small business was proper where the record shows that the agency conducted broad market research and responses from small business firms demonstrated that it was not likely to receive proposals from at least two responsible small businesses capable of meeting the requirements of the solicitation. DECISION North Shore Medical Labs, Inc., a small business, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. N00189-07-R-ZO27, issued by the Department of the Navy, Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Norfolk, for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) type 1+2 screening and confirmatory testing and other testing services. North Shore contends that the RFP's corporate experience requirements are unduly restrictive and that the procurement should be set aside for small business concerns. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RFP is for an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for HIV screening and confirmatory testing and other testing services on specimens provided by approximately 1,300 Navy activities and/or program blood donors worldwide. The RFP provided for an 8-month base period and four 12-month option periods, and

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