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Comptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
A protected decision was issued on the date below
and was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This
version has been redacted or approved by the parties
involved for public release.
Matter of: Arsenault Acquisition Corporation; East Mulberry, LLC
File: B-276959; B-276959.2
Date: August 12, 1997
Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Michael L. Martinez, Esq., Holland & Knight, for
the protester.
Leigh Ann Holt, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Scott Riback, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO,
participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
1. Protest against agency's elimination of proposal from further award
consideration is dismissed as untimely where not filed at General Accounting Office
(GAO) within 10 days after protester was advised that proposal would no longer be
considered.
2. Protest that agency improperly eliminated offeror's proposal from competitive
range is denied where record shows that firm's proposal was properly ranked
[deleted] out of [deleted] received and had no reasonable chance of being selected
for award.
DECISION
Arsenault Acquisition Corporation (AAC) and East Mulberry, LLC protest the
elimination of their proposals from the competitive range under solicitation for
offers (SFO) No. 97-07, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for the
lease of approximately 102,000 occupiable square feet of office and related space in
Fort Collins, Colorado.
We deny the protests.
The SFO, issued on February 11, 1997, called for the submission of initial offers by
March 21. Among other things, the SFO required that any proposed lease space be
in a newly constructed building with a maximum floor plate size of 41,000 square
feet. In addition, the building was to be located on a 29-35 acre government
campus-type site. As the acquisition is a two-step negotiated procurement, the SFO
advised that no price proposals were to be submitted initially, and that a
competitive range would be established among the initial proposals based on an](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptagal0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)