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B-414690,B-414690.2,B-414690.3 1 (2017-08-22)

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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                   Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                              of the United States


                                                  DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Decision                                        The decision issued on the date below was subject to
                                                a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                                been approved for public release.

Matter of: AAR Airlift Group, Inc.

File:        B-414690; B-414690.2; B-414690.3

Date:        August 22, 2017

John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., David C. Hammond, Esq., Monica DiFonzo Sterling, Esq.,
Sarah A. Hill, Esq., and Christian N. Curran, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the
protester.
Jennifer S. Zucker, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Wiley Rein &
Fielding LLP, for Construction Helicopters, Inc. d/b/a CHI Aviation; and David M. Nadler,
Esq., David Y. Yang, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for Columbia
Helicopters, Inc., the intervenors.
Lieutenant Colonel Kevin P. Stiens and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air
Force, and Walter C. Mullen, Esq., Todd P. Federici, Esq., and Robert D. Bowers, Esq.,
United States Transportation Command, for the agency.
Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest challenging award under a multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-
quantity contract is dismissed where the protester is also an awardee and has not
established that it is an interested party to protest.

2. Protest that agency unreasonably determined that the awardee met the task order
solicitation's minimum requirements is dismissed as untimely where agency expressly
advised offerors of its contrary interpretation of the requirements, and the protester did
not file a protest prior to the submission deadline for final proposal revisions.

3. Protest that agency failed to engage in meaningful or equal discussions with the
protester, by failing to advise the protester that its proposed price was too high, is
denied where the agency did not find the protester's price unreasonable, and was not
otherwise obligated to raise this matter during discussions.

4. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of past performance is denied where record
shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable and considered both the relevance and
quality of offerors' past performance efforts.

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