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B-412498 1 (2016-02-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadryg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: SRD Architects File: B-412498 Date: February 25, 2016 Shirish R. Desai for the protester. Paul Clay, Esq., and Katie Slayton, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the agency. K. Nicole Willems, Esq., and Jennifer Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that firm should be ineligible for award because its System for Acquisition Management record did not list, as its primary code, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code required by the solicitation at the time proposals were submitted is denied where the record shows that the contracting officer reasonably relied on other information to find that the awardee met the applicable size standard, and the firm obtained an official change to its primary NAICS code prior to award. DECISION SRD Architects, a small business located in Anaheim, California, challenges the selection for negotiations of AGS, Inc., a small business located in San Francisco, California, pursuant to solicitation/synopsis No. N62473-15-R-2417, issued by the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest, Capital Improvements Contract Core, for architectural design and engineering services. The protester argues that the agency should have found AGS ineligible for award because at the time AGS submitted its qualifications statement, AGS had a different primary North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code than the code required by the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The procurement was conducted using the selection procedures set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 36.6 (Architect-Engineer Services). In

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