SBA Must Rethink Swift & Staley’s Energy Award Disqualification

The Small Business Administration must reconsider its decision that Swift & Staley Inc. is too big to perform infrastructure support services for the Department of Energy under a small business set-aside contract, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said.

The SBA’s Office of Hearings and Appeals improperly found that Swift & Staley is ineligible on the basis of SBA regulations requiring the contractor to assume its proportionate share of receipts generated by a joint venture it partially owns, Portsmouth Mission Alliance LLC, Judge Thompson M. Dietz of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims said Aug. 27 in a decision to ...