The General Accountability Office has released their 23-page decision documenting why the agency sustained the protest filed by three companies over the sole source air tanker contract that the U.S. Forest Service awarded to Neptune Aviation December 12, 2013. The non-competitive contract, worth $141 million to $496 million, specified that Neptune would supply two or more next-generation air tankers, BAe-146s, for the next four to nine years beginning in 2014.
In our previous article about the decision we included the text of a press release issued by the GAO, but this 23-page document provides much more detail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Forest_Service_airtanker_scandal
Brings back memories of two connected “airtanker scandals” from the past….. one ended badly for Forest Service…. and ended positive for CDF.