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ili COMPTROLLER GENERAL. OF THE UNITED STATES
WAS HINGTON, D.C. 20544
.zr17 April 19, 1973
Ptu1 . DBoyd, Esq,
Attorny at Law
pr, a. n=358EST DOMAIENT AVAIIABL
XICLco, Xdaho 83701
Deanw H, oBoyde,
Uetoreae It i as e to yaourlettero of Iay 31M Qtod ptmber 21, X97pR
prot oting on behalf of Zdaho Aircraft Cowpay, Inc. (Idaho), aainst
the uolicitationA of offern under, a1 the award of any contract purnuat
to, Request for Proposaa (WT) Io. r0432-7 3, iauued ?roh 24 1972, by
Realon 3 or the Forest Servioe or the Uited Statten Depxrtment of
Ariculture.
!Mhe record dtnelosen that, for the past ceycrtrL ycra, Idcabo hes
qualified an n fixed-bne relidolt rrporakor at Ioise, Idaho, and has con-
trtted ith the Forest Sorvice to prcride air turn:er ari labflity at tlVe
loine Forest ence bae afor the vuposo of torest tire control. X'virr.
to £aeuanoo at tho 1972 equast for I'roponaX, oa tenn firom the )orent
flerxico Divtnon ol Fre Contrl, Refon h, visited Idaho on J1'arch 8t
1972, to curvey tAt im'n facilltit. Undro: Forent erdca rezu]htiors,
peroonnol from the Divicion of Fire Control art renponsible fnr dosnatA: g
recident banas, As a result of that vsirtey, the Division of VAre Control
notified the Acw iaunt Rionn3 Poreater on 1]rh 10, 192, th t, in its
opinuin although Idaho wiza a fixed baso operator, the co-=..any 6 not
meot tho rcquiremnento ao P. rnildcnt ocrator a deined undor rtiulnlon
4G-3.'(102-l (Definition o1' nidcnt; tOp'rator) of the Poroct Dervice Pro-
curemrngt legmuationn (F'SPTw). A report detniling the roltQ of the our-
voy and documentina these £indiagUo wex propared on Jthch I 1972.
Concurrently, in the interent of eTecttng a m.onetvry omg ti the
procuremnmt of air tanker sorvicos, the rorest L-rvice vvn conteplating
co ri o iw the Forest Service baes at Grand Canyon, Orecjou (flwion 3),
and Dolse, Idaho (flegion h). An the Division of .ro Control responsible
for both resions hrl determined that the air ta kor rcquirwicntu of
Region 3 wold terminate at uproizratcly the came tJno that thte air
tanhlr requiremznti of' t ion I4 ,uld bcrn, only cu u:t.tlcA ter con-.
trttn decneVd1 nuconctry,, T're 'ciZL, hQr Ic . wwV ; ,deter.. :rad not to
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