COC Referral Not Required When Proposal Fails to Provide Material Information; GAO B-415552.4, US21 Inc.

Protest challenging the agency’s rejection of a proposal as technically unacceptable is denied, where the protester failed to provide current certificates of quality for its fuel products, despite the agency’s clear instructions that these documents were required with offerors’ revised proposals, and where the agency was not required to refer the protester to the Small Business Administration for a Certificate of Competency determination, because the rejection of its proposal was based on a material failure of its proposal, not a matter of responsibility.