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B-413019 1 (2016-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadskp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General ! Accountablity * 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 i s i o n - .-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . . . .. Matter of: 1120 Vermont Avenue Associates, LLP; 1125 15th Street, LLC File: B-413019 Date: August 1, 2016 Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., Elizabeth N. Jochum, Esq., and Robert C. MacKichan, Jr., Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protesters. Mikhail S. Petersen, Esq., and Edith L. Toms, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Pedro E. Briones, Esq., and Noah B. Bleicher, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that solicitation for lease of office space unduly restricts competition is denied where the agency demonstrates a reasonable basis for requiring 30-foot column spacing and contiguous floor space. 2. Protest of solicitation's price evaluation provisions is denied where the provisions are unobjectionable, notwithstanding that the fixed tenant improvement allowance may disadvantage the incumbent lessor. DECISION 1120 Vermont Avenue Associates, LLP, and 1125 15th Street, LLC, both located in Washington, D.C., protest the terms of request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 1 DC2107, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), to lease office space for a federal tenant agency.' The protesters contend that the RLP's specifications exceed the tenant agency's minimum needs and unduly restrict competition. The protesters also argue that the solicitation's price evaluation provisions will not permit GSA to determine the lowest-priced proposal and will disadvantage the incumbent lessor. 1 The two buildings, which have different owners (hereinafter, 1120 and 1125, respectively), filed a joint protest, are represented by the same legal counsel and property management company, and retained the same architectural firm for the procurement. Protest at 1-3; see id., attach. 3-4, Expressions of Interest.

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