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B-416500 1 (2018-08-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvbi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Decision The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Dr. Rishi Saxena File: B-416500 Date: August 30, 2018 David A. Rose, Esq., The Rose Consulting Law Firm, LLC, for the protester. Deborah K. Morrell, Esq., and Donald C. Mobly, Esq, Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Scott H. Riback, Esq., and Tania Calhoun, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging evaluation of proposals and source selection for award of a lease is denied where record shows agency found that protester's offered building failed to meet a material solicitation requirement such that it was ineligible for award, and protester has not argued or demonstrated that the agency's conclusion was incorrect or unreasonable. DECISION Dr. Rishi Saxena, of Nashville, Tennessee, protests the award of a lease to Brown Cat Development, LLP, of Valdosta, Georgia, under request for proposals (RFP) No. VA248-17-R-0564 issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the lease of a building to house a community-based outpatient clinic in Valdosta, Georgia. The protester argues that the agency misevaluated proposals and made an unreasonable source selection decision. We deny the protest. The RFP anticipates the award, on a best-value tradeoff basis, of a lease for a 10-year base period (a 5-year firm period' and an additional 5-year period) and an additional 5- year option period, considering price and the following non-price considerations, in 1 The RFP provided that, after performance of the initial 5-year period of the lease, the agency retained termination rights any time thereafter. RFP at 4.

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