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B-292043 1 (2003-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyit0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: HEROS, Inc. File: B-292043 Date: June 9, 2003 Douglas L. Patin, Esq., and Claire K. White, Esq., Spriggs & Hollingsworth, for the protester. Annejanette K. Heckman, Esq., Scott Pickens, Esq., and John Rice, Esq., Pillsbury Winthrop, for Rolls Royce Corp., an intervenor. Vera Meza, Esq., and Wade L. Brown, Esq., Department of the Army, for the agency. Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest is sustained where solicitation to overhaul helicopter engines contemplates less than full and open competition, the agency has concluded that the successor- in-interest to the original equipment manufacturer of the engine is the only entity that possesses adequate information to successfully overhaul the engine, and the agency's view regarding other potential offerors' ability to meet the agency's requirements fails to reflect a reasonable level of advance planning as required by the Competition in Contracting Act. DECISION HEROS, Inc. protests the Department of the Army's limitation on competition in connection with request for proposals (RFP) No. DAAH23-02-R-0566 to overhaul T63-A-720 turbine engines for use in OH-58A/C Kiowa helicopters. Specifically, the RFP limits the field of offerors to Rolls Royce Corporation (RRC) and RRC's authorized maintenance centers (AMCs). HEROS maintains that the Army's exclusion of all other offerors unduly restricts competition in violation of the Competition in Contracting Act of 1984 (CICA), 10 U.S.C. § 2304 (2000). We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On January 10, 2003, the Army published the RFP at issue here, seeking proposals to overhaul a quantity of up to 300 T63-A-720 engines. Agency Report, Tab B, RFP, at 6.

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