https://www.gao.gov/products/136153

B-230615.2: Jun 21, 1988

A firm requested reconsideration of its dismissed protest of the Navy's rejection of its bid for keypunch services as nonresponsive. GAO had held that the Small Business Administration's (SBA) determination of the protester's size status was not subject to its review. In its request for reconsideration, the protester contended that GAO should have considered its protest, since the procurement was...

https://www.gao.gov/products/437702

B-230615.2: Jun 21, 1988

The issue is deemed abandoned. Material furnished by ECA in its initial protest appeared to indicate that the solicitation was set aside by the Navy for small disadvantaged business concerns under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act. Although ECA was a small disadvantaged business. Its parent company was only a small business. We dismissed the protest because the eligibility of a firm for assis...