Agency Required to Refer Small Business for SBA COC Review When Proposal is Found Technically Unacceptable in LPTA Procurement; GAO B-412742.4, 22nd Century Team, LLC—Costs

Request for a recommendation that the agency reimburse the protester the costs of filing and pursuing two protests is granted, where the agency failed to address the clearly meritorious grounds of the protester’s first challenge, despite holding discussions and evaluating revised proposals, and where the agency twice found the protester’s proposal to be technically unacceptable but failed to refer the vendor to the Small Business Administration for a Certificate of Competency review.