About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

B-276389.2 1 (1997-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafye0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The Holiday Inn North Raleigh File: B-276389.2 Date: July 8, 1997 Herbert C. Ross for the protester. Col. Nicholas P. Retson and Maj. Michael J. O'Farrell, Jr., Department of the Army, for the agency. Ray E. Baker, Sunrise International Group, Inc., for the intervenor. Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., and Christine Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that Small Business Administration (SBA) improperly failed to consider vital information bearing on awardee's status as a small business in connection with deciding whether the awardee was eligible for the Certificate of Competency program is dismissed since protest essentially involves the issue of what information should be considered by SBA and challenges SBA's determination of the awardee's size status, matters within SBA's exclusive statutory authority to determine small business size status and not for review under General Accounting Office Bid Protest Regulations. DECISION The Holiday Inn North Raleigh protests the award of a contract to Sunrise International Group under invitation for bids (IFB) No. DABT23-97-B-0031, issued by the Department of the Army for meals, lodging, and transportation for military applicants being processed at the Military Entrance Processing Station in Raleigh, North Carolina. Sunrise, a small business which had initially been rejected as nonresponsible, was awarded the contract after the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued it a Certificate of Competency (COC). Holiday Inn contends that SBA should not have considered Sunrise eligible for a COC because Sunrise does not qualify as a small business for purposes of this procurement due to its relationship with two large business subcontractors. According to the protester, Sunrise improperly failed to disclose its affiliation with its large business subcontractors, and SBA failed to consider the impact of Sunrise's proposed subcontracting arrangements in deciding whether Sunrise qualified as a small business eligible for a COC.

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most