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B-276889 1 (1997-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptagac0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: American Connecting Source d/b/a Connections File: B-276889 Date: July 1, 1997 Joseph J. Petrillo, Esq., and William E. Conner, Esq., Petrillo & Associates, for the protester. Mark Langstein, Esq., and Alden F. Abbott, Esq., Department of Commerce, for the agency. Ralph 0. White, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Where solicitation for conference facilities limited competition to hotels within a five block area of the main agency headquarters, the protester's proposal was properly excluded from the competitive range after agency evaluators determined that the protester's offered facility was located beyond the geographic area specified in the solicitation. DECISION American Connecting Source d/b/a Connections protests the award of a contract to the J.W. Marriott Hotel, Washington, D.C., by the Department of Commerce pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. 52-DKEX-7-90016, issued to procure conference facilities for the Bureau of Export Administration's Annual Update Conference on strategic trade issues. Connections argues that its proposal, offering conference facilities at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel, was improperly excluded from the competitive range because the agency erroneously concluded that the hotel was located outside the geographic limitation set forth in the RFP.1 We deny the protest. 1Connections also challenges the agency's exclusion of its proposal on the basis that it does not meet the requisite space requirements, and other evaluation conclusions. Since we find that the agency properly determined that Connections's offered hotel was outside the geographic proximity requirement, and Connections thus is not eligible for award, we need not reach Connections's other challenges to its evaluation.

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