Protégé’s Reliance on Mentor Does Not Implicate the Ostensible Subcontractor Rule; Size Appeal of Nationwide Pharmaceutical, LLC RE: Palisade Strategies, LLC, SBA No. SIZ-6027
Size protest alleging that a small business protégé’s mentor was an “ostensible subcontractor” is denied. The SBA properly determined that that the primary purpose of the contract was to maintain relationships with pharmacies, and that the small business prime could self-perform that requirement. Moreover, the small business was not unusually reliant on its mentor. The […]