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B-186403 1 (1976-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddjk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIONl ~ OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-186403 DATE: August 2, 1976 MATTER OF: Welmetco, Ltd. DIGEST: 1. Protester's status as a minority-owned small business certified as having first preference under Defense Manpower Policy No. 4 is not in itself reason why protester should have automatically been sent copy of IFB absent evidence that protester was a prior producer of item being procured or that protester had requested to be placed on bidders list for that item. 2. Agency's refusal to furnish prospective bidder with copy of solicitation on grounds none was available is not legally objectionable since agency is not required to prepare unlimited number of solicitations and it appears from record that adequate competition and reasonable prices were obtained and that agency did not seek to deliberately exclude bidder from competing. Welmetco, Ltd. (Welmetco) has protested the failure of the Department of the Army to furnish it with a bid set for invitation for bids (IFB) No.DAAO9-76-B-6465 issued as a total small business set-aside by the Army Armament Command, Rock Island, Illinois. Welmetco requests that it be allowed to submit a bid and that award not be made unless it has the opportunity to do so. Award of a contract has been withheld pending our decision. By letter dated March 31, 1976, two days after the IFB was issued, the sales agent for Welmetco requested a bid set for the subject IFB. The Army reports that it could not comDly with Welmetco's request because the 52 bid sets prepared had been dis- tributed. Bid sets first were sent to the 19 firms appearing on the Army's bidders list with the remainder to 33 other firms, in the order in which they responded to the synopsis of this procure- ment appearing in the Commerce Business Daily (CBD). It is also to be noted that 69 requests for bid sets, including the request from Welmetco, could not be honored due to the limited number of bid sets available. - 1 -

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