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B-404666 1 (2011-04-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbuj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 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: USA Jet Airlines, Inc.; Active Aero Group, Inc. File: B-404666 Date: April 1, 2011 Carolyn Callaway, Esq., for the protesters. Charmaine A. Howson, Esq., H. Jack Shearer, Esq., Joseph A. Lenhard, Esq., and Anh T. Nguyen, Esq., Department of Energy, for the agency. Paul N. Wengert, Esq., and Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest of agency requirement that offerors present evidence of certification under certain industry quality standards (specifically ISO 9001, ISO 9100, or AS 9110) at the time of proposal submission, rather than at the time of award or performance, is sustained where requirement exceeds agency's reasonable needs. 2. Protest that solicitation for aircraft maintenance services is ambiguous because agency has not provided service manuals or other more specific information about services that will be required is denied where solicitation provided sufficient information about the aircraft (most of which have not been purchased) to allow offerors to prepare proposals, and for agency to assess offeror understanding in evaluating those proposals. DECISION USA Jet Airlines, Inc. (USA Jet), of Belleville, Michigan, and Active Aero Group, Inc. (AAG), also of Belleville, protest the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. DE-SOL-0001781, issued by the Department of Energy (DOE), National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), for aircraft support and maintenance services. USA Jet argues that the solicitation fails to accurately describe the agency's requirement, and in other respects limits competition by imposing requirements that do not reflect the needs of the DOE. We sustain the USA Jet protest on one issue, and deny the remaining protest grounds.

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