GAO: Error in tanker maintenance contract

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GAO: Error in tanker maintenance contract
By Gayle S. Putrich - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Jan 14, 2008 6:25:50 EST

The Government Accountability Office has upheld one of several protest points filed by the company that lost a tanker maintenance contract in September.

After the Air Force decided last fall to give Boeing the four-year, $1.1 billion contract for depot maintenance of its KC-135 Stratotankers, the rival company, then known as Pemco Aviation Group, protested that the Air Force did not properly weigh the cost and price changes Boeing added to its final offer or the possible risks the changes could introduce.

GAO agreed.

“Our decision sustains the protest challenging the cost/price evaluation because the record does not reflect any Air Force analysis as to the realism of certain changes Boeing introduced in its final proposals, or the potential risk associated with those changes; the solicitation required such analysis,” said a December GAO statement. “We have recommended that the Air Force perform and document the required realism and risk analysis.”

The Air Force has 60 days to respond to the GAO’s recommendation, which was issued Dec. 27 but is not legally binding.


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