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B-184477 1 (1976-10-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadefv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: STHE COMPTROI.LER OEN MA&. 4DEECISIOINl . = THIS UNIVTEn STATES ; WASHINGTON, 0. 0. 20548 FILE: B.1844/7 DATE: October 28p 176 MATVTR CIF: Shiffer Industrial Eqaipment, Incorporated DIGEST; Where record does not show thut agency failed to disclose iuformation vital to decision in report upon which Small -q Business Administration refused to issue certificate of competency to protester, GAO cannot conclude that SBA action was subject to question by GAO, Invitation for bid.s (IFB) 10060075-B-0037 was Issued by the Naval Supply Systems Comrand (NAVSUP), Vashington, DOC., to prom cure a cunveyor system at the Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, At bid openiag on December 17, 1974, Shiffer Industrial Equipment, Inc., was reveilled to bn the low bidder, Shiffer has protested the determinaticdn that it is no4 responsible for award under this IFB and the refusal by the Small Business Admtnistration (SBA) to issue a certificate of competLncy (COC). After bids were opentd, the procurement activity requested a preaward survey by the Defense Contract Administration Services Region (DCASR) to determine Shiffer's responsibility. On January 7, 1975, DCASR recommended award to Shiffer, The DCASR'report included a December 30, 1974, memorandum by a NAVSUP official who was familiar with a similar Shiffer project at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and who was . a membor of the preaward survey board. This official's memorandum concludeds Based upon the perfoinance of Shiffer Ind. Equip. Inc. to date and the qiiestiorns asked during this pre-award, it is the o)winion of the undertigned, said contractqr lacks cechnical capacity/competency and production capacit, to perform IFB N0000075-B- 0037. No award is recomended. This conclusion was based upon alleged difficulties Shiffer was experiencing in performance under its Pearl Harbor contract. How- evar, the DCASR production engineering rbport, after reviewing the points raised in the NAVSUP memorandum, found Shiffer to be I' .6 1 S P.

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