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                   U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                            of the United States




Decision


Matter of:   Flight Support, Inc.

File:        B-417637.2

Date:       October 3, 2019

Daniel Weckstein, Esq., Anthony J. Mazzeo, Esq., and Vania Ratliff, Esq., Vandeventer
Black LLP, for the protester.
J. Alex Ward, Esq., W. Jay DeVecchio, Esq., R. Locke Bell, Esq., and Alissandra D.
Young, Esq., Morrison & Foerster LLP, for the intervenor.
Michael T. Genchi, Esq., Robin Ray Coll, Esq., Jason Nelson, Esq., Stephanie Polk,
Esq., and Karissa Johnson, Esq., Department of the Navy, 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 solicitation's evaluation scheme as unduly restrictive of competition
is denied where agency provides rational explanation for its requirements and
demonstrates that they reasonably relate to the agency's actual needs.
DECISION

Flight Support, Inc. (FSI) of Newport News, Virginia, protests the terms of request for
proposals (RFP) No. N00421-18-R-0009, issued by the Department of the Navy for
high-endurance electronic warfare jet commercial air services in connection with various
training requirements. FSI argues that the RFP's corporate experience and past
performance requirements are unduly restrictive of competition.

We  deny the protest.

The RFP  seeks proposals to obtain contractor-owned, contractor-operated aircraft and
personnel to support training for shipboard and aircraft weapons systems operators and
aircrews. In effect, the successful offeror will operate aircraft to simulate a wide variety
of airborne threats in order to train, test and evaluate shipboard and aircraft squadron
weapons  systems operators and aircrews about how to counter potential enemy

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