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B-419391 1 (2021-02-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaecjr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1Oo_ U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE A Century of Non-Partisan Fact-Based Work 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Eskanos Enterprises File: B-419391 Date: February 1, 2021 Barry Eskanos for the protester. Mikhail Petersen, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Hannah G. Barnes, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency improperly rejected lease proposal is denied where the record shows that the agency's evaluation was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Eskanos Enterprises, a women-owned small business of Colorado Springs, Colorado, protests the rejection of its proposal under request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 9CO2518, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), for a 16-year lease of office and related space in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The protester argues that the agency improperly determined that its proposal was unacceptable. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND Prior to issuing the RLP, on June 5, 2020, GSA posted an advertisement on the System for Award Management (SAM) seeking expressions of interest for a lease of office space in a delineated area within Colorado Springs, Colorado, on behalf of the Air Force Space Command. Agency Report (AR), Exh. 1, Advertisement Posted in SAM at 3-4. GSA received 13 responses, 6 of which fell outside of the delineated area and were consequently excluded from further participation in the procurement process. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 2. The remaining responses included the one submitted by Eskanos. On July 14, 2020, GSA and Air Force Space Command representatives visited the seven remaining sites, including the protester's site. Id. Based on that site survey, the

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