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B-417065,B-417065.2 1 (2019-02-05)

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

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

Matter of:  Vertex Aerospace, LLC

File:       B-417065; B-417065.2

Date:       February 5, 2019

W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., J. Alex Ward, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., R. Locke Bell,
Esq., and Caitlin A. Crujido, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester.
Scott F. Lane, Esq., and Katherine S. Nucci, Esq., Thompson Coburn LLP, for DynCorp
International, LLC, the intervenor.
R. Montana Erickson, Esq., and Lisa D. Wentz, Esq., Department of the Navy, for the
agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

Agency reasonably assessed a significant weakness in protester's proposal, and
properly assigned it a moderate technical risk rating, based on protester's failure to
provide adequate substantiation for its proposed indirect rates.
DECISION

Vertex Aerospace, LLC, of Madison, Mississippi, protests the Department of the Navy's
award of a contract to DynCorp International, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, pursuant to
request for proposals (RFP) No. N61340-18-R-0905, to provide maintenance and
logistics support services for the Navy's TH-57 Sea Ranger helicopters.'

We deny the protest.




1 Vertex submitted its initial proposal in February 2018 under the name of L-3 Vertex
Aerospace, LLC, the incumbent contractor. Agency Report (AR), Memorandum of Law
(MOL), Nov. 23, 2018, at 1. In June 2018, Vertex was sold to American Industrial
Partners and, thereafter, the Navy was notified of the ownership and name change.
Protest at 1.

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