B-230266.3: Apr 6, 1988

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest against the Army's determination that it was nonresponsible and the Small Business Administration's (SBA) subsequent refusal to issue it a certificate of competency. GAO had held that the protester failed to provide sufficient evidence that the Army acted fraudulently or in bad faith. In its request for reconsideration, the protester conten...

B-230266.3: Apr 6, 1988

Where a party submits in its request for reconsideration an argument that it could have presented at the time of the protest. Dismissal of protest is affirmed where protester has not shown that government officials failed to consider vital information bearing on the protester's responsibility when refusing to issue a certificate of competency. We dismissed the protest because ICE did not make out...