https://www.gao.gov/products/135598

B-230758: Apr 18, 1988

A firm protested the Small Business Administration's (SBA) and the Defense Logistics Agency's (DLA) procedures under a solicitation for fire retardant trousers, contending that the agencies' failure to allow it sufficient time to complete its certificate-of-competency application constituted bad faith. GAO held that: (1) the protester failed to provide any evidence that SBA or DLA acted in bad fai...

https://www.gao.gov/products/438204

B-230758: Apr 18, 1988

Burden of showing that the Small Business Administration (SBA) acted in bad faith because the protester was not provided sufficient time to submit data required for certificate of competency (COC) application is not met where the record shows that the SBA attempted to obtain an extension of the deadline for a COC determination. The granting of an extension for Small Business Administration action...