Restrictions on Ability to Pay Dividends or Fire CEO Lead to Affiliation by Negative Control; COFC No. 17-1865C, Team Waste Gulf Coast LLC v. United States

Motion for preliminary injunction in post-award bid protest is denied, where the SBA Office of Hearings and Appeals reasonably determined that the protester is not a small business for purposes of this set-aside procurement, due to the negative control exercised by a parent company and the parent company’s affiliation with a large business.