Area Office Must Consider Ostensible Subcontractor Affiliation Even Where Both Firms are Small; SBA No. SIZ-5848, Lost Creek Holdings LLC, d/b/a All-Star Health Solutions

Appeal of the Small Business Administration area office size determination is granted, where the office failed to consider the awardee’s affiliation with its subcontractor under the ostensible subcontractor rule, and denied where the office properly considered whether the firms were affiliated by identity of interest.