GAO Finds Protestor with Technically Unacceptable Offer an Interested Party Yet Denies Protest for Failing to Demonstrate an Unreasonable Evaluation of Awardee’s Proposal; GAO B-415383, Sky Quest Aviation LLC

Protest challenging the Air Force’s evaluation of the awardee’s proposal for helicopter services is denied, where the protestor was found to be an interested party, despite the rejection of its proposal as technically unacceptable, but failed to demonstrate that the agency’s evaluation was unreasonable.