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B-413513.2 1 (2017-03-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtgd0001 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: LCPP, LLC File: B-413513.2 Date: March 10, 2017 Robert C. MacKichan, Jr., Esq., Gordon Griffin, Esq., and Mary Beth Bosco, Esq., Holland & Knight, LLP, for the protester. Harold W. Askins III, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Nora K. Adkins, Esq., and Amy B. Pereira, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest of request for lease proposals' price provisions is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the provisions violate applicable procurement laws and regulations and the provisions are otherwise unobjectionable. DECISION LCPP, LLC, of Gainesville, Florida, protests the terms of request for lease proposals (RLP) No. VA248-16-R-0633, issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for leased administrative office space in Lake City, Florida. LCPP, the incumbent lessor, argues that the RLP's fixed tenant improvement allowance undermines the competitive process and is prejudicial to offerors who could accomplish the tenant improvements for less than the mandated amount. LCPP also asserts that the agency failed to include a present value price evaluation in the solicitation. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND On June 3, 2016, the VA issued the RLP for the lease of 9,000 net usable square feet (NUSF) of administrative/office space in Lake City, Florida. RLP at 4. The RLP contemplated the award of a 10-year lease on a best-value tradeoff basis based upon the agency's evaluation of the following four factors: technical (quality of location and quality of building/layout design); technical risk; past performance; and price. Id. at 4, 17. The solicitation advised that the non-price factors, when combined, were significantly more important than price. Id. at 17.

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