RFQ Q-A Amendment 1.doc

AMENDMENT 1

RFQ # WK4UPX-8063-S002

DESCRIPTION: ISO Certification 05 May 08

1. The purpose of this amendment is to clarify offerors questions concerning the Performance Work Statement (PWS) for ISO Certification.

2.1 Question: The RFP is for surveillance audits. These types of audits are done by the incumbent registrar. The overall registration contract should be recompeted.

In addition, the PWS dictates the audit duration without providing the number of employees and locations covered by the existing registration scope. There is no way to verify that the audit days stated meets the requirements of ISO Guide 62.

Please clarify these issues.

2.2 Response: The United States Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive

Medicine-Europe, Department of Laboratory Sciences, located in Landstuhl, Germany, with 33 employees is a DIN/EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accredited environmental testing laboratory with current registrations to ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System and ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System. Our current contract with a registrar for the ISO 9001:2000 & ISO 14001:2004 certifications is up for renewal this year. We are looking for a 'Registrar' to provide an integrated ISO 9001/14001 registration with continuing surveillance audits for a 1 year base period plus 2 option periods.

3. The closing date for the receipt of quotes changed from Thu 08 May 08 at 0200hrs PM CEST to Tue 27 May 08 0200 hrs PM CEST.

4. Please submit any question or your Quote to:

Electronic:

Facsimile:

From the U.S. 0049-631-536-8508

Within Germany 0631-536-8508

Isolde.mueller@ramstein.af.mil Catherine.white@ramstein.af.mil