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B-293644.6 1 (2004-07-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaplu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Vertol Systems Company, Inc. File: B-293644.6; B-293644.7; B-293644.8; B-293644.9; B-293644.10 Date: July 29, 2004 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., and Nolan Sklute, Esq., for the protester. Capt. Peter G. Hartman, Department of the Army, and Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agencies. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of procurement of foreign threat systems aircraft under the Economy Act is denied where the Army and Air Force reasonably determined that protester's aircraft could not satisfy the agencies' requirements for demonstrated airworthiness. DECISION Vertol Systems Company, Inc. protests the actions of the United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) in acquiring foreign threat systems aircraft for use in military exercises. Vertol generally asserts that the agencies improperly procured these aircraft from the Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO), Department of the Army, or under an existing contract, in violation of the Competition in Contracting Act, 10 U.S.C. § 2304(a)(1)(A) (2000), and the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. § 644(a) (2000). We deny the protests. ACQUISITIONS FROM TSMO Background Vertol primarily focuses on the agencies' actions in acquiring foreign threat systems aircraft from TSMO--instead of allowing Vertol, a small business, to compete to

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