SBA to rethink loan monitoring award
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Nick Wakeman
The agency will conduct a second evaluation of bids in a head-to-head contest to support SBA lending partners.
Dun & Bradstreet will get a second chance at a Small Business Administration contract that went to Experian Information Solutions for loan and lender monitoring services.
SBA will use the $34 million contract to acquire support for continuous assessments of the agency’s lending partners.
Dun & Bradstreet argued that SBA’s technical and price evaluations were flawed, including the price realism evaluation of Experian’s bid.
After D&B protested to the Government Accountability Office, SBA decided to take a corrective action and pulled the award back.
SBA will re-evaluate price realism of Experian’s bid and make a new award decision based on that new analysis.
GAO dismissed the protest Dec. 9. No word yet on the timetable for a new decision.
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