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GAO Burns Fire Tanker Protest

The protester challenged the agency's issuance of task orders for exclusive-use airtanker services, arguing the agency unreasonably evaluated its proposed C-130 aircraft by failing to credit its structural integrity program and improperly penalizing it for high unavailability rates tied to a more rigorous military-derived maintenance schedule.

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