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B-276058.2 1 (1997-12-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafxd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to a I GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: 440 East 62nd Street Company File: B-276058.2 Date: December 11, 1997 Melinda L. Carmen, Esq., Carmen & Muss, P.L.L.C., for the protester. Rebecca L. Kehoe, Esq., Cotten & Selfon, for Arch 1650 Partners, L.P., an interveno r. Robert J. McCall, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Andrew T. Pogany, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Award to offeror submitting technically higher-rated, higher-priced proposal was unobjectionable, where solicitation stated that price and technical factors were of equal weight and agency determined that superior technical merits of successful offer justified higher price. DECISION 440 East 62nd Street Company protests the award of a lease to Arch 1650 Partners, L.P. under solicitation for offers (SFO) No. MPA95000, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for office space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 440 East principally contends that the evaluation of offers and the selection decision by the agency were seriously flawed, and that its offer should have been selected for award. We deny the protest. As amended, the SFO requested offers to enter into an initial lease term of 10 years, with 2 consecutive renewal options of 5 years each, for 265,000 occupiable square feet (o.s.f.) of office space for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The SFO specified that the space must be located in a prime commercial office district with attractive, prestigious, professional surroundings with a prevalence of modern design and/or tasteful rehabilitation. The SFO required parking spaces within the building or within two city blocks for only two government vehicles, as well as visitor parking at reasonable rates, also within two city blocks. The SFO additionally required that a variety of inexpensive fast food establishments and/or

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