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B-286351 1 (2000-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalgb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 . G A 0 Comptroller General Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: AMI Construction File: B-286351 Date: December 27, 2000 Craig W. Kidwell, Esq., Marvel & Kump, Ltd., for the protester. Annejanette Kloeb Heckman, Esq., Department of Agriculture, and Laura J. Mann, Esq., Small Business Administration, for the agencies. Charles W. Morrow, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Contracting agency's reliance on information in the Small Business Administration's (SBA) PRO-Net database to determine that the protester, which certified itself in its bid as an eligible HUBZone small business concern, was not small and thus was not eligible for a HUBZone evaluation preference was improper because such questions must be referred to the SBA under applicable regulations where the agency does not believe it can or should accept the bidder's self-certification. DECISION AMI Construction protests the award of a contract to N.A. Degerstrom, Inc. under invitation for bids (IFB) No. R4-17-00-10, issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, for mine reclamation work. We sustain the protest. The IFB, issued on August 16, 2000, was for mine reclamation work at the Aurora Partnership Mine, an abandoned cyanide heap leach facility, in the Humboldt- Toiyabe National Forest, Mineral County, Nevada. The IFB schedule requested prices for 12 line items of work (totaled into a base bid) and for an additive item. Section 1.2(b) of the IFB stated that offers will be evaluated by adding a factor of 10 percent to the price of all offers except.., offers from HUBZone small business

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