KINNETT DAIRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. J. C. FARROW, Etc., Et Al., Defendants-Appellants, Flav-O-Rich, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant

GOLDBERG, Circuit Judge:

This appeal from the grant of a preliminary injunction prohibiting performance of a government contract by a large business concern raises a series of issues relating to the regulations governing the set-aside of certain military procurements for bidding restricted to small business concerns. While the questions most directly placed before us are the proper interpretation of a procurement regulation and the permissibility of certain management techniques in procurement actions pursuant to that regulation, we are more fundamentally called upon to consider the proper…