B-284622.2: May 19, 2000

DIGEST Agency decision not to place procurement under 8(a) program or to set procurement aside for exclusive small business participation is unobjectionable where decision was concurred with by Small Business Administration. There is no showing of bad faith on the part of government officials or that regulations may have been violated. The Writing Company protests that the RFQ was improperly issue...

B-284622.2: May 19, 2000

A firm protested an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) solicitation for the redesign and rewriting of certain taxpayer notices, contending that the solicitation should have been set aside for small business participation. GAO held that the IRS reasonably decided not to set the procurement aside for exclusive small business participation, since there was no expectation that it would receive proposals f...