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B-404478 1 (2011-02-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbrm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: JiL AL G A O Comptroller General Acc untabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 D .. Decision Matter of: Airforce Turbine Service, Ltd. File: B-404478 Date: February 16, 2011 Geoffrey D. Weisbart, Esq., Hance Scarborough, LLP, for the protester. Antonio T. Robinson, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Linda C. Glass, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST In a solicitation for the repair of aircraft engines used for mission critical tasks, such as fighting forest fires, requirement that offeror must be a designated overhaul facility for the specific aircrafts is unobjectionable where agency reasonably determined that contractors with this designation will best be able to meet the agency's needs. DECISION Airforce Turbine Service, Ltd. (ATS), of Mathis, Texas, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-84M8-S-10-0003, issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (FS) for aircraft engine maintenance and overhaul services. ATS asserts that the RFP requirement that offerors be a designated overhaul facility (DOF) to qualify to compete is unduly restrictive of competition. We deny the protest. FS issued the RFP on October 5, 2010 for aircraft maintenance and overhaul services of Pratt & Whitney 530A and PT6A engines installed on FS aircraft used in fighting forest fires. RFP at 3. The RFP included a requirement that contractors be Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified and be a DOF to perform work on Pratt & Whitney aircraft engine model numbers PWC, PT6 and 530. RFP at 10. Each offeror was required to present valid evidence of current authority to perform work on the listed engines, and only offerors that were certified DOFs were eligible for award. Id. Prior to the closing time, ATS, which is not a DOF, filed this protest asserting

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