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B-276535 1 (1997-06-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafyt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: T3 Corporation File: B-276535 Date: June 27, 1997 Edward J. Tolchin, Esq., Fettmann, Tolchin & Majors, for the protester. Alexander J. Brittin, Esq., and Diane E. Flyer, Esq., McKenna & Cuneo, for KBM Group, an intervenor. Anthony N. Torres, Esq., Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and Paul Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that contracting agency's offering of requirement to Small Business Administration for acceptance into 8(a) program on sole source basis was improper because agency failed to identify protester as interested firm is denied where contracting agency took reasonable steps to identify and solicit 8(a) vendors with appropriate expertise and was not made aware of protester's alleged interest in the procurement, and nothing in the record suggests that protester took any affirmative steps to make its interest known to agency. DECISION T3 Corporation protests the award of a sole source subcontract to KBM Group under request for proposals (RFP) No. BATF-97-1, issued by the Department of the Treasury, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) under section 8(a) of the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 637(a) (1994).1 The protester asserts that ATF did not report T3's interest in the procurement to the SBA and did not properly estimate the value of the subcontract. T3 also complains that the agency failed to report changed requirements and a revised estimate of the subcontract's value to the SBA. We deny the protest. 'Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act authorizes the Small Business Administration (SBA) to contract with government agencies and to arrange for performance of such contracts by awarding subcontracts to socially and economically disadvantaged small business. 15 U.S.C. § 637(a).

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