B-283094.2: May 3, 2000

General Accounting Office will not consider protest that Small Business Administration (SBA) failed to consider vital information bearing on awardee's responsibility in issuing it a certificate of competency where the allegedly vital information does not concern awardee's compliance with a definitive responsibility criterion. 2. The contract was awarded to PCT after the Small Business Administrati...

B-283094.2: May 3, 2000

A firm protested an Army contract award for hospital housekeeping services, contending that the: (1) Small Business Administration (SBA) issued the awardee a certificate of competency (COC) without considering vital information bearing on the awardee's responsibility; and (2) Army failed to conduct an adequate price realism analysis. GAO held that the: (1) SBA issued the COC in accordance with the...