B-283399.2,B-283399.3: Nov 30, 1999

DIGEST Protest challenging agency decision not to set aside procurement for small business concerns is sustained where decision was based on insufficient efforts to ascertain small business capability to perform the contract. These commissaries are generally equipped with cash register equipment with front-end scanners. DeCA's commissary sales data is currently available to contractors that enter...

B-283399.2,B-283399.3: Nov 30, 1999

A firm protested a Defense Commissary Agency's (DeCA) solicitation for information services, contending that DeCA failed to make sufficient efforts to solicit and consider small businesses to perform the contract. GAO held that DeCA did not make sufficient efforts to ascertain small business capability to perform the contract. Accordingly, the protest was sustained, and GAO recommended that DeCA:...