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B-414507 1 (2017-06-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Timberline Helicopters, Inc. File: B-414507 Date: June 27, 2017 Alan I. Saltman, Esq., and Kathleen H. Barron, Esq., Smith, Currie & Hancock, LLP, for the protester. Sherry Kinland Kaswell, Esq., Department of the Interior, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging the terms of the solicitation is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that meeting the solicitation requirements and complying with applicable Federal Aviation Administration regulations is impossible and fails to show that the agency's judgments are otherwise unreasonable. DECISION Timberline Helicopters, Inc., of Sandpoint, Idaho, protests the terms of request for proposals (RFP) No. D1 7PS001 57, issued by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM), for an exclusive use heavy size helicopter to transport qualified non-crewmembers and/or cargo in support of the agency's natural resource missions. Timberline contends that the solicitation is defective because no helicopter can meet the solicitation requirements and comply with applicable Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations regarding the transport of qualified non-crewmembers. We deny the protest. The BLM issued the RFP on February 27, 2017, for exclusive use helicopter flight services to transport qualified non-crewmembers (firefighters) and/or cargo in support of BLM's fire management missions, pursuant to the procedures contained in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) parts 12 (commercial items) and 15 (contracting by negotiation). RFP at 1, 6. The solicitation anticipated the award of a fixed-price indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract for a 1-year base period and four 1-year option periods. Id. at 6.

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