B-290595: Aug 2, 2002

A firm protested the specifications of an Air Force solicitation for academic and flight simulation services, contending that the Air Force did not include the cost of outfitting its simulators with the appropriate hardware. GAO held that the Air force included sufficient information in the solicitation to allow offerers to recover the costs of necessary modifications. Accordingly, the protest was...

B-290595: Aug 2, 2002

DIGEST Protest that solicitation for pilot training is defective because it lacks a separate contract line item number (CLIN) for the cost of flight simulator modifications is denied where the agency provided sufficient information in the solicitation to allow offerors to reasonably use their business judgment to amortize and recover the costs of such modifications in its CLINs covering the pilot...