LMR’s $78 Million Flight Training Award Withstands Price Protest

LMR Technical Group LLC is cleared to perform a nearly $78 million US Air Force task order for flight training support services despite a rival bidder’s argument that the agency conducted an improper price realism evaluation, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

Protester T3i Inc. failed to show that the Air Force improperly excluded its bid from consideration because of unrealistically low labor rates, the US Government Accountability Office said.

Agencies have discretion to determine realism by comparing rates against published price lists, or by considering prices obtained through market research, the GAO said. The record shows the ...