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B-295936 1 (2005-04-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqvs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Vertol Systems Company, Inc. File: B-295936 Date: April 18, 2005 Lawrence J. Sklute, Esq., Sklute & Assocs., for the protester. Clarence D. Long, III, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency. David A. Ashen, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that procurement of foreign threat systems aircraft under Economy Act is improper, and that agency instead should conduct competitive acquisition under which protester could compete, is denied where Air Force reasonably determined that protester was not viable competitor because its helicopter could not satisfy the agency's requirement for demonstrated airworthiness. DECISION Vertol Systems Company, Inc. protests the actions of the Department of the Air Force in acquiring foreign threat systems aircraft for use in military training exercises. Vertol generally asserts that the agencies improperly procured the aircraft from the Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO), Department of the Army, by means of a transaction under the Economy Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1535 (2000). We deny the protest. Vertol's protest challenges the Air Force's action in acquiring foreign threat systems aircraft from TSMO--instead of allowing Vertol, a small business, to compete to provide the required aircraft--for use in military exercises.' In this regard, TSMO controls a fleet of government-owned foreign ground and aviation systems, which 1 Foreign threat systems aircraft are aircraft that represent enemy aircraft during military exercises and the testing of United States weapons systems.

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