Contracting Officer Admits Backdating Market Analysis Supporting Set-Aside Decision; COFC No. 16-1656C, Gallup Inc. v. United States

Protest challenging the agency’s decision to set aside a contract for small business is rendered moot by the agency’s corrective action, and agency agrees to pay protester’s attorney fees and litigation costs after acknowledging that a contracting officer backdated a memorandum summarizing the market analysis supporting the decision to set aside the procurement for small business to make it appear the memorandum was created contemporaneously.