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/protege 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/protege training requirement solicited here. Noonan, who was the awardee of the predecessor mentor/protege training requirement, contends that the contracting officer's determination was unreasonable.We deny the protest.
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