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-e GeAtOa
E Comptroller General
of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: Crescent Helicopters
File: B-283469.2
Date: November 30, 1999
Dean H. Shealy for the protester.
Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency.
Wm. David Hasfurther, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Agency selection of offeror whose helicopter provided significantly greater payload
capacity than the protester's slightly lower priced helicopter was reasonable and
consistent with solicitation.
DECISION
Crescent Helicopters protests the award made to Biscayne Helicopters by the Office
of Aircraft Services (OAS), Department of the Interior, under request for proposals
(RFP) No. 8099-20. The awardee will provide helicopter services to the National
Park Service, Everglades National Park. Crescent contends that as the firm offering
the lowest-priced proposal, it should have received the award.
We deny the protest.
The RFP, issued pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12--
Acquisition of Commercial Items, and FAR Subpart 13.5--Test Program for Certain
Commercial Items, required offerors to submit hourly prices for 400 guaranteed
hours per year of flight services (one light helicopter and a pilot and a relief pilot) for
purposes of transporting personnel and/or cargo in support of natural resource
missions. A contract was to be awarded for a base year and 2 option years. The RFP
required the offered helicopter to meet enumerated minimum requirements, and
section A of the RFP set out a target requirement that the helicopter be able to carry
an internal payload of 800 pounds under defined circumstances. The RFP stated that
[a] BH 206BIll [helicopter] should typically fulfill the above requirements; however,
offerors were to submit sufficient information with their proposals to demonstrate
that the helicopter they offered would comply with these requirements. RFP Cover](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptajmm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)