B-233661:
Mar 16, 1989
A firm protested the Small Business Administration's (SBA) failure to issue it a certificate of competency (COC) under a Veterans Administration (VA) solicitation for bar-coding services, contending that: (1) SBA acted in bad faith by failing to consider vital information; (2) SBA improperly investigated its financial capability; and (3) VA lacked urgent and compelling reasons to award the contrac...