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B-290595 1 (2002-08-02)

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          G     A    0                                                  Comptroller General
Accountability * Integrity* Reliability                                  of the United States
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548



          Decision


          Matter of: Flight Safety International

          File:        B-290595

          Date:        August 2, 2002

          William J. Nugent for the protester.
          Maj. Leslea T. Pickle and Maj. Deborah L. Collins, Department of the Air Force,
          for the agency.
          Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General
          Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
          DIGEST

          Protest that solicitation for pilot training is defective because it lacks a separate
          contract line item number (CLIN) for the cost of flight simulator modifications is
          denied where the agency provided sufficient information in the solicitation to allow
          offerors to reasonably use their business judgment to amortize and recover the costs
          of such modifications in its CLINs covering the pilot training.
          DECISION

          Flight Safety International protests the decision of the Department of the Air Force
          to issue request for proposals (RFP) No. F41689-02-R-0008 for academic and
          simulator C-2 IA pilot training without a separate contract line item number (CLIN)
          to address the contractor's cost for outfitting its Federal Aviation Administration
          (FAA) Level C configured cockpit flight simulators with a C-21A configured cockpit.
          Flight Safety contends that this approach places an unreasonable amount of risk on
          the offerors.

          We deny the protest.

          A draft RFP for a follow-on contract for C-2 IA academic and simulator pilot training
          was issued on February 12, 2002. The pilot training included both classroom and
          simulator instruction. The contractor would be required to conduct training at its
          own facility using a contractor-furnished flight simulator with the capability for C-
          21A configuration. The contractor would also be responsible for developing and
          using computer-aided instruction software in its classroom presentations and in
          student self-study.

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