A firm protested the Air Force's rejection of its bid for roofing maintenance, contending that the solicitation's small-disadvantaged-business set-aside provision was unconstitutional. GAO would not review the protest, since the: (1) protester untimely filed after bid opening its protest against the specifications; and (2) issue of the provision's constitutionality concerned the courts. Accordingl...

General Accounting Office will not consider protester's challenge to the constitutionality of agency's use of a small disadvantaged business set-aside since issues involved are more appropriate for resolution by the courts. The solicitation was issued as a total SDB set-aside in accordance with Department of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Sec. 219.502-72 (1988 ed.). Unde...