B-217283,B-217283.2,B-217283.3:
Mar 14, 1985
Three firms protested the Department of Energy's (DOE) sale of crude oil from a petroleum reserve, contending that DOE improperly awarded the oil sale to a firm which was not a small refiner. GAO held that DOE properly relied on its subregion's certification of the awardee which had been made on an earlier DOE contract. Further, DOE waited the required 10-day period for the Small Business Administ...