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B-402807 1 (2010-07-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbkh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: iL G A O Comptroller General f~.n! 7 Accountabiity * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. D e c is io n ........................................................... Matter of: Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC File: B-402807 Date: July 27, 2010 Michael A. Hordell, Esq., and Heather Kilgore Weiner, Esq., Pepper Hamilton LLP, for the protester. Robert A. Hauser, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging geographic restriction in solicitation for lease of office space is denied where agency reasonably found restriction necessary to meet its needs. DECISION Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC, of Washington, DC, protests the terms of solicitation for offers (SFO) No. 8DC2175, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), for the lease of office space to house portions of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The protester asserts that the SFO's geographic restriction exceeds the government's requirements and is therefore unreasonable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND This procurement is for office space to house three DHS components: Citizenship and Immigration Services; Science and Technology Directorate; and Undersecretary for Management. DHS considers these components critical to its mission and 'Other agency documents indicate that the leased space will also house the DHS University System and DHS Employee Career Development Center. Agency Report (AR), Tab 3, Justification at 3.

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