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B-420518,B-420518.2 May 18, 2022 1 (2022-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaondu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE D wec is o n The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: J.E. McAmis, Inc. File: B-420518; B-420518.2 Date: May 18, 2022 Paige B. Spratt, Esq., Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C., for the protester. Lochlin B. Samples, Esq., Garrett E. Miller, Esq., and Karl Dix, Jr., Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, for Trade West Construction, Inc., the intervenor. Deena G. Braunstein, Esq., and Nathaniel S. Canfield, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Heather Weiner, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest alleging that the lowest-priced bid was nonresponsive because it failed to include certain information at the time of bid submission is dismissed as legally insufficient where the information pertains to bidder responsibility, which may be provided any time prior to contract award, and therefore does not establish a valid basis of protest. 2. Protest that the Small Business Administration (SBA) failed to consider vital information bearing on the protester's responsibility in the issuance of a certificate of competency is dismissed where there is no evidence that the procuring agency provided incorrect information or withheld information from the SBA. DECISION J.E. McAmis, Inc., a small business located in Chico, California, protests the award of a contract to Trade West Construction, Inc., a small business of Mesquite, Nevada, under invitation for bids (IFB) No. W9127N21 B0022, issued by the Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the Coos Bay North Jetty project. The protester argues that the Army should have found Trade West's bid nonresponsive and ineligible for award. The protester also contends that the Small Business Administration (SBA) erred in issuing Trade West a certificate of competency (COC) because the procuring agency failed to present vital information to the SBA bearing on the firm's responsibility and the SBA failed to follow its own regulations. We dismiss the protest.

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