“Federal contractor BD Squared has filed a pre-award challenge over the $15 billion Polaris governmentwide acquisition contract, citing concerns that the solicitation may violate Small Business Administration regulations…”
“’The solicitation … permits a mentor-protégé joint venture to provide qualifications and experience from only the mentor firm. This means that the competition for this small business set-aside contract will ultimately devolve into a comparison of qualifications from large business mentor firms against small businesses like BD Squared,’ BD said in its complaint.
It added: ‘As a small business, BD Squared cannot compete with the experience and qualifications of multi-national IT service providers that serve as the mentor partner in mentor-protégé joint ventures.’…”
“The company is seeking for the General Services Administration (GSA) to revise the terms of the solicitation for small businesses and for its protest costs to be reimbursed…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal contractor launches pre-award challenge over $15B Polaris solicitation – By John Hewitt Jones, March 29, 2022. FedScoop.
