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B-284706 1 (2000-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptalbf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Crescent Helicopters File: B-284706; B-284707; B-284734; B-284735 Date: May 30, 2000 Dean H. Shealy for the protester. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of Interior, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly determined, based on market research, that helicopter services could be acquired under Federal Acquisition Regulation part 12 commercial item procedures because the services solicited are the type of services offered and sold competitively by the aviation industry in substantial quantities to commercial entities; none of the requirements pertaining to pilot and mechanic qualifications and invoicing, which were included in the solicitations, transformed the type of services sought here to something other than a commercial item. 2. Protest that agency improperly included in commercial item solicitation for helicopter services pilot and mechanic qualification requirements that were inconsistent with commercial practice is denied where the record showed that commercial contracts had similar requirements, and for those requirements that were not in commercial contracts, the agency properly issued waiver in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation § 12.302(c). DECISION Crescent Helicopters protests the terms of requests for proposals (RFP) Nos. 8000- 03, 8000-04, 8000-05, and 8000-16, issued by the Department of the Interior, Office of Aircraft Services (OAS), for helicopter services. We deny the protests. The RFPs, issued pursuant to the commercial item procedures of Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 12, are for the acquisition of helicopter flight services, fully operated and maintained by the contractor, in four different locations. The helicopter services will be used to support a variety of Interior resource programs,

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