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B-291670.6 1 (2003-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyhw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0Comptroller General A- Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting 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: AAR Aircraft Services--Costs File: B-291670.6 Date: May 12, 2003 Frederick W. Claybrook, Esq., Crowell & Moring, for the protester. Joni M. Gibson, Esq., Department of Justice, for the agency. Guy R. Pietrovito, Esq., and James A. Spangenberg, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST General Accounting Office recommends that the protester be reimbursed for the costs of filing and pursuing its protests, where the agency unduly delayed taking corrective action until after submission of the agency report and the protester's comments, and the protests were clearly meritorious. DECISION AAR Aircraft Services requests that we recommend that it be reimbursed the costs of filing and pursuing its protests of the award of a contract to CSI, Inc. under request for proposals (RFP) No. MS-02-R-0012, issued by the United States Marshals Service, Department of Justice, for the lease and maintenance of jet aircraft for prisoner transfer and other purposes. We grant the request, and recommend that AAR be reimbursed the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing its protests, including those incurred in pursuing this request. The United States Marshals Service currently operates a fleet of aircraft to transport prisoners and criminal aliens throughout the United States and to certain countries in Latin America. The RFP sought fixed-price proposals for the lease and maintenance of six large jet passenger/transport aircraft for up to 10 years to replace the agency's aircraft. Detailed performance and design requirements were identified for the aircraft, for example: All aircraft and engines offered by a vendor must be the same model from the same manufacturer. A number of the aircraft