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oComptroller General
of the United States
Washington, D.C. 20548
Decision
Matter of: Mecca Investments, L.L.C.
File: B-277375; B-277375.2
Date: October 8, 1997
Lawrence P. Block, Esq., Doyle & Bachman, for the protester.
Joel D. Malkin, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Susan K McAuliffe, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest that evaluation of offers and agency's subsequent award of a lease for office
space were improper because awardee's offer failed to meet material requirements
of the solicitation is denied where awardee's offer reasonably was found acceptable
and record shows that, even if agency did relax minimum space requirement for
awardee, as protester contends, protester was not competitively prejudiced by
agency's actions.
DECISION
Mecca Investments, L.L.C. protests the award of a lease by the General Services
Administration (GSA) to ARC Construction under solicitation for offers (SFO)
No. GS-05B-16162 for space for Social Security Administration (SSA) offices in
Evansville, Indiana. Mecca contends that ARC's offer should have been rejected for
failure to comply with material requirements of the SFO regarding public
transportation, location/amenities, and minimum o cc upiable space.
We deny the protest.
The agency evaluated the acceptability of potential sites in the Evansville area for
the SSA office space and issued the SFO to prospective offerors whose sites were
deemed acceptable. The factors for consideration in assessing a site's acceptability
were set out in the SFO, which provided, among other things, that [a]dequate
public transportation is required to the proposed location. The following property
location requirements (for properties located outside of the city center area) were
also set out in the SFO:
Space must be located in an office, research, technology, or business
park that is modern in design with a campus-like atmosphere, or on an
attractively landscaped site containing one or more modern office
buildings that are professional and prestigious in appearance with](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptagcb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)