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B-414690,B-414690.2,B-414690.3 1 (2017-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtul0001 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 Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: AAR Airlift Group, Inc. File: B-414690; B-414690.2; B-414690.3 Date: August 22, 2017 John E. McCarthy, Jr., Esq., David C. Hammond, Esq., Monica DiFonzo Sterling, Esq., Sarah A. Hill, Esq., and Christian N. Curran, Esq., Crowell & Moring LLP, for the protester. Jennifer S. Zucker, Esq., Cara L. Lasley, Esq., and Brian G. Walsh, Esq., Wiley Rein & Fielding LLP, for Construction Helicopters, Inc. d/b/a CHI Aviation; and David M. Nadler, Esq., David Y. Yang, Esq., and Philip E. Beshara, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for Columbia Helicopters, Inc., the intervenors. Lieutenant Colonel Kevin P. Stiens and Alexis J. Bernstein, Esq., Department of the Air Force, and Walter C. Mullen, Esq., Todd P. Federici, Esq., and Robert D. Bowers, Esq., United States Transportation Command, for the agency. Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest challenging award under a multiple award indefinite-delivery, indefinite- quantity contract is dismissed where the protester is also an awardee and has not established that it is an interested party to protest. 2. Protest that agency unreasonably determined that the awardee met the task order solicitation's minimum requirements is dismissed as untimely where agency expressly advised offerors of its contrary interpretation of the requirements, and the protester did not file a protest prior to the submission deadline for final proposal revisions. 3. Protest that agency failed to engage in meaningful or equal discussions with the protester, by failing to advise the protester that its proposed price was too high, is denied where the agency did not find the protester's price unreasonable, and was not otherwise obligated to raise this matter during discussions. 4. Protest challenging agency's evaluation of past performance is denied where record shows that agency's evaluation was reasonable and considered both the relevance and quality of offerors' past performance efforts.