B-270259: Feb 20, 1996

A firm protested a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) solicitation for inmate drug testing services, contending that BOP should have issued the solicitation as a small business set-aside. GAO held that BOP: (1) failed to consult with its small business specialist and the Small Business Administration before it withdrew the original small business set-aside; (2) unreasonably determined that it would not recei...

B-270259: Feb 20, 1996

ACCU-Lab asserts that the solicitation should have been set aside for exclusive small business participation. The solicitation was set aside for exclusive small business participation. Before bids were submitted. A determination that is required by the Economy Act. Renewing its assertion that the solicitation should have remained set aside for small businesses. ACCU-Lab contends that there are num...