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B-402524.2 1 (2010-05-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbjg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,G A O Comptroller General LXn , Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability 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: PJ Helicopters, Inc. File: B-402524.2 Date: May 20, 2010 Richard D. Lieberman, Esq., and Gabriel Soll, Esq., McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, P.C., for the protester. Melissa McClellan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, for the agency. Jacqueline Maeder, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Agency's price reasonableness determination under solicitation for helicopter fire suppression services was unobjectionable where it was based on comparison of prices received; fact that agency determined higher prices to be reasonable under prior solicitations does not demonstrate that determination in this case was flawed. DECISION PJ Helicopters, Inc., of Red Bluff, California, protests the determination by the U.S. Forest Service, National Interagency Fire Center, to exclude its proposal from the competitive range under request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-024B-S-09-9004, for exclusive-use helicopter fire suppression services at various base locations. The protester contends that the agency's price reasonableness determination was flawed, and that the agency improperly rejected its proposal based on price alone, without evaluating its technical merits and conducting a price/technical tradeoff. We deny the protest. The solicitation, issued September 25, 2009, contemplated the award of one or more fixed-price contracts, with economic price adjustments, for a base year, with three 1-year options, for exclusive use of a minimum of 33 standard category heavy (type I) and medium (type II) helicopters for host bases at various locations. RFP at B-1. The solicitation included 33 contract line items (CLINs), each representing a host base location. Id. at C-1. Award was to be made to the offeror(s) whose proposal(s) were evaluated as the best value to the government considering price and several non-price evaluation factors. Id. at E-7 to E-8. The RFP provided that price

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