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 2003-11-06 monographic deposited born digital 8 p. GA 1.13:B-292662 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292662 P0b002ee18fd45bf5 f:292662 DGPO 2016-06-23 2016-06-23 GAOREPORTS-B-292662 machine generated eng fdlp COMPTROLLERDECISION GAOREPORTS-B-292662 B-292662 Comptroller General Decision Protest contentions that (1) the contracting agency transferred its requirement for housing maintenance services to the Small Business Administration*s (SBA) 8(a) contracting program in a bad faith attempt to avoid continued performance under a small business set-aside contract previously awarded to the protester, or to avoid giving the protester an opportunity to compete for the work, and (2) SBA violated its regulations in accepting the work for the 8(a) program, are denied where the record shows that despite inadequacies in the contracting agency*s initial offering letter to SBA, SBA ultimately obtained all of the information required by its regulations, and followed its regulatory guidelines in deciding that the offered work was a *new* requirement under the terms of the regulations. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292662/html/GAOREPORTS-B-292662.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-B-292662/pdf/GAOREPORTS-B-292662.pdf GAO/B-292662 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-B-292662 Comptroller General Decision GAO/B-292662; C. Martin Company, Inc., B-292662, November 6, 2003;