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B-411306,B-411306.3,B-411306.4 1 (2015-07-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrga0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * 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. D e c i s i o n L .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: Coulson Aviation (USA), Inc. File: B-411306; B-411306.3; B-411306.4 Date: July 8, 2015 Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., and Mary Pat Buckenmeyer, Esq., Smith Pachter McWhorter PLC, for the protester. Melissa D. McClellan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Evan D. Wesser, Esq., and Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. In a procurement for airtanker services for wildfire firefighting support, the protester is not an interested party to challenge a solicitation requirement to submit proof of safety certification as being unduly restrictive of competition where the protester did not have the safety certifications even after the extended period of time requested by the protester has elapsed. 2. Protest challenging the requirement for a pre-award inspection is dismissed where the protester suffered no competitive prejudice because it otherwise was ineligible for award. 3. Protest challenging the amount of time afforded to offerors to respond to the solicitation is denied where the record shows that the agency provided reasonable advance notice to offerors of the agency's requirements and afforded offerors a reasonable opportunity to respond to the solicitation. DECISION Coulson Aviation (USA) Inc., of Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada, challenges the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. AG-024B-S-1 5-9003, which was issued by the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service for next generation (NextGen) large airtanker services for wildfire firefighting support.' Coulson argues 1 This procurement is referred to as the NextGen 2.0 procurement because it is the follow-on procurement to the previous NextGen 1.0 procurement. The Forest (continued...)

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