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B-184420,B-185206 1 (1976-04-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddqa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION )as= THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-184420 DATE: April 7, 1976 B-185206 MATTER DOF: Poloron Products, Inc. DIGEST: 1. Where contracting officer's determination that offeror was nonresponsible under RFP was premised upon basis that offeror's proposal was technically unacceptable, it is clear that it was being rejected for insufficiency of proposal, not for lack of capacity or credit, and therefore nonreferral to SBA was proper. 2. Protester's questioning determination that proposal was technically unacceptable on basis that contracting officer failed to utilize best technical advisors for evaluation is not relevant, since by its own admission in letter dated closing date for negotiations it had not provided all material necessary to establish production line acceptability. 3. Determination whether to issue RFP for separate procurement while protest is pending under another RFP is matter for contracting agency discretion. Poloron Products, Inc. (Poloron), protested the award of a con- tract to Etowah Ianufacturing Co. under request for proposals (RFP) DAAAO9-75-R-0081, issued by the Army Armament Command (ARMCOM), Rock Island, Illinois, for the design, layout, procure- ment, installation and trial run of production line facilities for the manufacture and assembly of the body assembly metal parts for grenades M42/M46. The protest has been the subject of several agency reports and charges, rebuttals, and comments. However, the essential issue presented by all of this material is whether the con- tracting officer had to refer to SBA for consideration of the issuance of a certificate of competency the determination that Poloron, a small business concern, was nonresponsible for award of a contract under the RFP. In that connection, the RFP listed - 1 -

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