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Comptroller General
of the United States

Washington, D.C. 20548

Decision

Matter of: National Test Pilot School--Request for

               Reconsideration

File:        B-237503.2; B-237503.3

Date:        June 22, 1990


Sean C. Roberts, for the protester.
James Vickers, Esq., and John Brosnan, Esq., Office of the
General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the
decision.

DIGEST

On reconsideration, General Accounting Office has no basis
to change corrective action recommendation that options not
be exercised to a recommendation that the contract be ter-
minated and award made to protester, where record does not
show that protester in fact submitted the technically
superior proposal and agency has a continuing need for
training services which would be interrupted with the
termination of the existing contract.

DECISION

National Test Pilot School (NTPS) requests reconsideration
of the recommendation for corrective action contained in our
decision National Test Pilot School, B-237503, Feb. 27,
19904 90-1 CPD    238, sustaining NTPS' protest of the
evaluation of proposals under request for proposals (RFP)
No. DTFA-02-89-R-00018, issued by the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) for developing and conducting training
courses for flight test pilots and engineers.

We affirm our decision.

Our Office sustained NTPS' protest because we found that the
FAA made award to the University of Tennessee Space
Institute based solely on price when the evaluation scheme
in the RFP indicated that price and technical considerations
were to be weighted equally and that the agency would
determine the relative ranking of the technical proposals.
We found that the agency's failure to follow the announced
evaluation scheme could have prejudiced the protester, who
in reliance on the RFP evaluation scheme may have proposed a

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