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B-270894.2 1 (1996-08-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaebs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: First Street Investments Limited Partnership File: B-270894.2; B-270894.3 Date: August 15, 1996 Alex D. Tomaszczuk, Esq., and Devon E. Hewitt, Esq., Shaw Pittman Potts & Trowbridge, for the protester. Barry D. Segal, Esq., and Allan I. Aasmaa, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Christina Sklarew, Esq., John Van Schaik, Esq., and Michael R. Golden, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest against award to higher-priced, higher technically rated offeror is denied where the solicitation evaluation scheme gave greater weight to technical merit than price, and the agency reasonably concluded that protester's lower price did not outweigh the technical advantages demonstrated in the awardee's higher-priced proposal. DECISION First Street Investments Limited Partnership protests the award of a contract to Arizona Public Service (Arizona) by the General Services Administration (GSA) under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. GS-09B-96089 for a lease of office and related space for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Reclamation in the Phoenix, Arizona area. First Street alleges improprieties in the evaluation of competing offers and the award decision. We deny the protest. The SFO sought offers for a 10-year term, with 5 years firm, for approximately 60,546 rentable square feet yielding between a minimum of 54,492 to a maximum of 57,216 occupiable square feet.1 The SFO required the space to be located in a first class quality building of sound and substantial construction and to have a potential 1The SFO explained that rentable space is the area for which a tenant is charged rent, and may include a share of the building's common areas, such as lobbies and corridors, etc., while occupiable space includes only the portion of rentable space that is available for the tenant's personnel, equipment, and furnishings. 1152815

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