United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao_comptroller_general legislative 2016-06-23 U.S. Government Publishing Office 1996-05-30 monographic deposited born digital 10 p. GA 1.13:B-270860.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3 P0b002ee18fd49a88 f:2708603 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3 B-270860.3 Comptroller General Decision

1. Protester is entitled to the costs of filing and pursuing its protest challenging the Army's evaluation of its technical proposal where the agency failed to promptly or adequately investigate the clearly meritorious protest allegations questioning the propriety of the evaluation, but only took corrective action when the General Accounting Office asked it to review various improprieties readily apparent in the evaluation documents provided with the agency report.<p/>2. Protest that contracting agency improperly failed to award the contract to the protester after the Small Business Administration (SBA) issued the firm a certificate of competency (COC) is sustained where the record shows that shortly after SBA issued its decision to deny the COC it learned that decision might be erroneous; it immediately requested and received additional time to review that decision from the contracting agency; and the contracting agency failed to take any contract action until after it received SBA's final decision to issue the COC. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3/html/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3.pdf GAO/B-270860.3 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-270860-3 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-270860.3; Holiday Inn-Laurel--Protest and Request for Costs; Title 15 Section 637(b)(7) Title 15 Section 637(b)(7)(A) 15 U.S.C. 637(b)(7) 15 U.S.C. 637(b)(7)(A)