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B-289295 1 (2002-02-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaocl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O0 Comptroller General A a * Integrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: E. F. Felt Company, Inc. File: B-289295 Date: February 6, 2002 Walter J. Malyszek, Esq., Malyszek & Malyszek, for the protester. Warren D. Leishman, Esq., and Kenneth C. Kitzmiller, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and John W. Klein, Esq., and Kenneth Dodds, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Henry J. Gorczycki, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST General Accounting Office will not review challenges to the Small Business Administration's (SBA) decision not to issue a certificate of competency unless there is a showing that the certificate of competency denial resulted from possible bad faith on the part of a government official, or from a failure to consider vital information because of how information was presented to, or withheld from, the SBA by the procuring agency. DECISION E. F. Felt Company, Inc. protests the refusal of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to issue a certificate of competency (COC) to Felt with regard to its offer under request for proposals (RFP) No. F34601-01-R-40213, issued by the Department of the Air Force for the overhaul of 840 aircraft components. The protest also alleges an organizational conflict of interest exists for a competing offeror. We dismiss the protest. The Air Force issued the emergency RFP on July 17, 2001, with award to be made to the acceptable, responsible offeror who proposed the lowest price. The contracting officer requested a preaward survey on Felt from the Defense Contract Management Agency-San Francisco (DCM1A). DCMA found the firm's financial resources to be satisfactory, although it otherwise recommended that award not be made to Felt based on the following deficiencies: lack of sufficient personnel or subcontracts to perform the contract work, lack of evidence that material quotes had been received,

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