B-270545: Mar 21, 1996

A firm protested a Defense General Supply Center (DGSC) contract award for synthetic lubricating oil, contending that DGSC improperly gave the awardee a small disadvantaged business preference. GAO held that it would not review the awardee's small business status, since that was a matter for the Small Business Administration to consider. Accordingly, the protest was dismissed...

B-270545: Mar 21, 1996

Protest challenging awardee's eligibility for preferential consideration as a small disadvantaged business on the ground that the supplier proposed by the awardee is not a manufacturer is dismissed because the Small Business Administration is vested with conclusive authority to decide that issue. It was offering a product on the qualified products list manufactured by Technolube. It is Hatco's con...