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B-274081.4 1 (1997-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: The Real Estate Center File: B-274081.4 Date: February 24, 1997 Lynn Hawkins Patton, Esq., Ott & Purdy, for the protester. Jane Converse, Esq., Department of Veterans Affairs, for the agency. Robert C. Arsenoff, Esq., and Paul I. Lieberman, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. Protester that received a copy of an invitation to submit an application to become an approved real estate management broker is not an interested party to object on behalf of other firms that were not solicited. 2. Agency predetermination of fees to be paid to real estate management brokers without conducting a price competition is unobjectionable where statutory requirement that price be considered in all selection decisions does not apply to the agency's solicitation of brokers at issue. 3. Agency's failure to timely respond to protester's requests for clarifications concerning broker assignment process does not provide a basis for sustaining a protest where letter soliciting broker applications indicated basically what performance would be required, the contents of the application form revealed the factors that the agency would consider in the approval process, and the protester did not indicate that it would have completed the application in a different manner had it received the requested information earlier. DECISION The Real Estate Center (REC) protests the issuance of a letter on November 7, 1996, by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) inviting certain firms to submit applications (VA Form 26-6685) for designation as approved real estate management brokers to manage assigned VA properties in the San Diego, California area. Earlier in the year, the VA had issued solicitation No. 691-81-95 for property management services and had awarded a contract to O'Malley & Principi; in response to a protest filed by REC, the agency decided to terminate that contract and, following revisions to the solicitation, to resolicit for its requirements. Pending the resolicitation effort, the November 7 letter, which was issued to all firms that responded to the original solicitation, sought to obtain interim property management coverage on a 528224

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