Contractor Fails to Meet Size Standard by Assigning Subcontractor to Manufacture End Item; SBA No. SIZ-581, Technology Associates Inc.

Appeal of the area office’s determination that appellant is not small for the subject procurement is denied, where the solicitation sought a completed manufactured tugboat, but the offeror’s proposal showed that a subcontractor would be manufacturing the procured item, and where the solicitation clearly stated the final manufactured item was the purpose of the procurement, even though only the design and engineering services phase was guaranteed funding.