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B-198844.4 1 (1981-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvnq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0I.LER ; THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION ..OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON1 D.C. 20548 FILE: B-198844.4 DATE: June 1, 1981 MATTER OF: Rosenfeld, Steinman-& Blau DIGEST: Where small business concern has been found not responsible, matter is for determination by Small Business Admin- istration (SBA) under Certificate of Competency (COC) procedures; GAO will not review such SBA determinations where protester fails to make rima facie showing of fraud or that infor- mation vital to responsibility deter- mination has not been considered. Rosenfeld, Steinman & Blau (RSB), a small business concern, protests the contracting officer's determination that it is a nonresponsible firm and therefore ineligible for award under the Small Business Administration's (SBA) request for proposals (RFP) No. SBA-7(j)- MSB-80-2. RSB also protests the refusal of SBA to issue it a Certificate of Competency (COC) and the contracting officer's subsequent decision to cancel certain items in the solicitation. The RFP requested offers to provide technical and management assistance to eligible small business concerns within designated geographical areas. RSB was the low acceptable offeror for the areas of Connecticut and Puerto Rico. However, the contracting officer determined that RSB was not responsible by reason of its failure to apply tenacity and perseverance to do an acceptable job as evidenced by performance as the incumbent contractor for these services. Basically, the contracting officer believed that RSB was delinquent in the submission of task reports under task orders issued pursuant to its were less than satisfactory. The nonresponsibility determination was based on a memorandum prepared in connection with the pre-award survey which was performed

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