B-231772: Aug 31, 1988

A firm protested the Air Force's cancellation of a solicitation for power station distribution centers, and subsequent resolicitation of the requirement as a small-business set-aside, contending that the Air Force lacked a proper basis to withdraw the original restriction for small disadvantaged businesses, since: (1) its estimated fair market price was erroneous; and (2) the solicitation unreason...

B-231772: Aug 31, 1988

That the agency's subsequent determination that the offers it received were unreasonably priced and did not. Justify the set-aside was incorrect. The decision to conduct a procurement as an SDB or small business set- aside is a business judgment generally within the ambit of the contracting agency. We will not question agency determinations in this regard absent a clear showing of an abuse of that...