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B-299720 1 (2007-07-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaugb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Carson Helicopter Services, Inc. File: B-299720; B-299720.2 Date: July 30, 2007 David M. Nadler, Esq., and Joseph Berger, Esq., Dickstein Shapiro LLP, for the protester. Major ChristinaLynn E. McCoy, and Roy L. Masengale, Esq., Department of the Army, 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 On a solicitation for aerial wildland fire suppression services to be awarded to the offeror submitting the low-priced, technically acceptable proposal under which technical proposals showing compliance with specifications were required, the agency unreasonably determined that the awardee's proposed helicopter met the payload requirements, based upon statements in the proposal indicating compliance, where the proposal also contained information that should reasonably have created doubt to an evaluator familiar with helicopters whether the helicopter in fact satisfied the requirements. DECISION Carson Helicopter Services, Inc., protests the award of a contract to Croman Corporation by the Department of the Army pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. W911S8-07-R-0007 for aerial wildland fire suppression services. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of Croman's proposal was unreasonable because its proposed helicopter exceeded the manufacturer's allowable payload limitations. We sustain the protests. Issued on January 17, 2007, the RFP provided for the award of a fixed-price contract covering the period of May 15 to September 30, for the exclusive use of a rotary wing aircraft capable of delivering a minimum of 1,000 gallons of water in a single trip to fight wildland fires within the confines of Yakima Training Center, Yakima, Washington, and fires that threaten to enter or pass through the training center. The

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