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B-417292 1 (2019-05-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzgp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 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: Pilot Xpress, LLC File: B-417292 Date: May 14, 2019 Bryan R. King, Esq., and Andres M. Vera, Esq., Offit Kurman Attorneys-at-Law, for the protester. Amy A. Cook, Esq., and Angie Calloway, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's solicitation of certain elements of the required services using commercial item procedures is denied where record shows protester was not prejudiced by agency's actions. DECISION Pilot Xpress, LLC (PX), of Dallas, Texas, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. 1D07180066, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), on behalf of the Department of the Air Force, for aircrew flight and maintenance training for helicopters. PX argues that the agency improperly is soliciting certain services on a commercial item basis, despite the fact that such services are not sold commercially. We deny the protest. The RFP contemplates the award principally of a fixed-price contract to provide aircrew flight and maintenance training for a base year and four 1-year option periods on a best- value tradeoff basis using price and non-price evaluation considerations. The RFP identifies both part 15 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (contracting by negotiation) and FAR part 12 (acquisition of commercial items/services) procedures as applicable to the acquisition. RFP (part 1) at 7, 60; RFP (part 2) at 35.1 The RFP 1 The agency provided the RFP in several parts in its report, part 1 included sections A through J of the RFP, while part 2 included parts K through M of the RFP. Agency (continued...)

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