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B-419414,B-419414.2 1 (2021-02-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaeclx0001 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 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This version has been approved for public release. Matter of: Public Properties, LLC File: B-419414; B-419414.2 Date: February 9, 2021 Robert C. MacKichan Jr., Esq., Gordon Griffin, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Adam T. Adcock, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Jordan K. Baker, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Heather Self, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated awardee's proposal as technically acceptable is sustained because the contemporaneous record does not show that, prior to award, the agency assessed the impacts that could result from a portion of the awardee's property lying within a 100-year floodplain. 2. Protest that the agency failed to document adequately its technical evaluation is sustained because the record is devoid of any assessment of whether offerors' proposals met numerous solicitation requirements. 3. Protest that the agency performed improper present value price evaluation is denied where the agency's analysis was reasonable and consistent with the terms of the solicitation. DECISION Public Properties, LLC, of Washington, D.C., protests the award of a lease for office space to PMMC Ltd., of Carson City, Nevada, by the General Services Administration (GSA), under request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 7NV2126. The protester argues that the awardee should have been evaluated as technically unacceptable, and further challenges the agency's price evaluation. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND The RLP, issued on January 10, 2020, provided for the award of a fully-serviced

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