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B-400295,B-400295.2 1 (2008-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaph0001 and id is 1 raw text is: im G A 0Comptroller General KA Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Helicopter Transport Services LLC File: B-400295; B-400295.2 Date: September 29, 2008 David M. Nadler, Esq., Scott Arnold, Esq., and David Y. Yang, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the protester. Alan I. Saltman, Esq., Saltman & Stevens, PC, for Erickson Air-Crane, Inc., the intervenor. Elin M. Dugan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that agency improperly evaluated proposals under one of four technical factors on a pass/fail basis is sustained where the solicitation, by stating that the four technical factors were listed in descending order of importance and calling for a price/technical tradeoff, contemplated that each technical factor would be evaluated qualitatively. 2. Protest that agency improperly evaluated protester's past performance is sustained where the record contains no contemporaneous documentation of the oral discussion that the agency states provided the basis for the evaluation, and the evaluators relied on unidentified written documents. DECISION Helicopter Transport Services LLC (HTS) protests the award of contracts to Erickson Air-Crane, Inc. and Columbia Helicopters, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-024B-S-08-9003, issued by the U.S. Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho, for fire support helicopter services. HTS alleges that the agency: improperly evaluated proposals under the most important

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