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B-417006.2, B-417006.3 1 (2019-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadzzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States ....................................................................................................................... DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Poplar Point RBBR, LLC File: B-417006.2; B-417006.3 Date: September 3, 2019 Richard J. Conway, Esq., Sara N. Gerber, Esq., and Tjasse Fritz, Esq., Blank Rome LLP, for the protester. Adetokunbo Falade, Esq., and Elizabeth Johnson, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Michael Willems, Esq., and Edward Goldstein, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that agency erred in excluding the protester from competition for a long-term lease is denied where the solicitation required a range of amenities located near the proposed building, but the proposed site contained no existing amenities, and the protester did not provide satisfactory proof that amenities would exist during the lease term. DECISION Poplar Point RBBR, LLC (Poplar Point), of Washington, DC, protests its exclusion from competition under request for lease proposals (RLP) 5DC0392 issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service, for the long-term lease of a property or properties to serve as the headquarters for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The protester contends that the agency erred in evaluating the protester's proposal, applied unstated evaluation criteria, failed to conduct meaningful discussions, and engaged in disparate treatment. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Currently, the SEC leases three buildings, which collectively house the SEC's headquarters. Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 2. The three existing leases will expire on September 30, 2023. Id. On July 10, 2018, GSA issued the RLP on behalf of the SEC seeking to lease up to 1,274,000 square feet of office and related space for an

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