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B-420073,B-420073.2 Nov 23, 2021 1 (2021-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaompb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O o U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE 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-420073; B-420073.2 Date: November 23, 2021 J. Alex Ward, Esq., W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., James A. Tucker, Esq., and Lyle F. Hedgecock, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the protester. Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Jon W. Burd, Esq., Sarah Hansen, Esq., Nicholas L. Perry, Esq., and Teresita Regelbrugge, Esq., Wiley Rein LLP, for DynCorp International LLC, the intervenor. Colonel Frank Yoon, Captain Jheremy K. Perkins, Michael J. Farr, Esq., Lieutenant Colonel Brian D. Teter, Lieutenant Colonel Shawn C. Tabor, and Ryan C. Springer, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Evan C. Williams, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the agency's evaluation of the awardee's proposal is sustained where the record is insufficiently documented to demonstrate that the agency meaningfully and reasonably considered whether a corporate restructuring of the awardee's business resulting from a stock purchase would have an effect on the awardee's ability to perform the task order. DECISION Vertex Aerospace, LLC, of Madison, Mississippi, protests the award of a task order to DynCorp International LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, by the Department of the Air Force under solicitation No. FA3002-21-R-0001 for comprehensive flight operations support (FOS) at Vance Air Force Base (AFB), Oklahoma. The protester contends that the agency's evaluation of proposals was unreasonable and that the agency failed to adequately consider the effect of a recent corporate transaction involving DynCorp. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The Air Force established the Aircraft Maintenance Enterprise Solutions (ACES) multiple award (MAC), indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract for aircraft

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