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B-403831,B-403831.2 1 (2010-12-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbpp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General 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: Flight Safety Services Corporation File: B-403831; B-403831.2 Date: December 9, 2010 Richard B. Oliver, Esq., David J. Ginsberg, Esq., and Keith M. Byers, Esq., McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, for the protester. Joseph P. Hornyak, Esq., Gregory Hallmark, Esq., and Megan Mocho Jeschke, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for CAE-USA, Inc., an intervenor. Christopher S. Cole, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. Edward Goldstein, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency failed to reasonably evaluate awardee's low fixed price is denied where the solicitation provided only that the agency may reject an offeror's proposal where its price was unreasonably low such that it reflected an inherent lack of competence or failure to comprehend the complexity and risks of the program, and the record reflects that the agency considered the awardee's low price and raised the matter with the awardee during discussions, and the awardee advised the agency that it understood the requirements and intended to submit a low price because securing award of the contract was a key element of its corporate strategy. DECISION FlightSafety Services Corporation of Centennial, Colorado, protests the award of a contract to CAE-USA, Inc. of Tampa, Florida, under request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8223-10-R-50094, issued by the Department of the Air Force for KC-135 Aircrew Training System support services at 13 Air Force bases worldwide. FlightSafety argues that the Air Force failed to reasonably evaluate CAE-USA's unrealistically low price and CAE-USA's past performance. We deny the protest.

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