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B-292382 1 (2003-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacykf0001 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 Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Houston Air, Inc. File: B-292382 Date: August 25, 2003 William B. Allison for the protester. Christopher P. Terry, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Sharon L. Larkin, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Agency properly selected higher priced, higher technically rated quotation for award where agency reasonably determined that awardee's technical advantages were worth the higher price, and protester failed to provide information required by the solicitation. 2. Under procurement conducted under simplified acquisition procedures, there was nothing improper in obtaining clarifications from the awardee and not giving the protester an opportunity to correct a major deficiency under one of the evaluation factors that rendered its quotation unacceptable under that factor. DECISION Houston Air, Inc. protests the award of a contract to Commander Northwest Ltd., by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) under request for quotations (RFQ) No. RFQ R1-03-26, to provide air tactical fixed-wing aircraft services for fire management and other missions primarily in the Northern Region National Forests. Houston challenges the reasonableness of the agency's evaluation and alleges that unequal discussions were conducted. We deny the protest. The USDA requires aircraft to operate as an Air Attack Platform for Air Tactical Group Supervisors (ATGS) conducting and directing aerial incident fire management activities. The ATGS use the aircraft as an aerial eye in the sky to perform fire surveillance and reconnaissance, provide input to ground fire managers, and coordinate wildfire suppression efforts. The aircraft may also be used to perform

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