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B-281185 1 (1998-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptahyc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: oComptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Peachtree 25th LLC d/b/a/ American Management Company File: B-281185; B-281185.2 Date: December 4, 1998 Paul F. Khoury, Esq., and Daniel A. Silien, Esq., Wiley, Rein & Fielding, for the protester. John C. Ringhausen, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and John M. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST 1. General Services Administration reasonably determined that protester's building was outside central business area (CBA) of city of Atlanta, and thus was not entitled to consideration for lease under terms of Executive Order 12072, where it reasonably based CBA boundaries on information from city, and subsequently made independent determination that protester's building was neither in centralized community business area, nor in adjacent area of similar character, the two areas that comprise CBA. 2. Since CBA, by definition, is comprised of centralized community business area and similar adjacent areas, agency's independent determination that protester's building was not in adjacent area of similar character, and thus was outside CBA, properly was based on comparison of location of protester's building to centralized community business area rather than to entire CBA. DECISION Peachtree 25th LLC d/b/a/ American Management Company protests the rejection of the offer it submitted in response to solicitation No. 8GA0017, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) to lease office space in Atlanta, Georgia for the Small Business Administration (SBA). Peachtree argues that GSA improperly concluded that its offered property is outside the central business area (CBA) in which properties must be located to be considered for award. We deny the protest. The solicitation, reflecting the terms of Executive Order 12072, 3 C.F.R., 1979 Comp., p. 213, reprinted in 40 U.S.C. § 490 (1994), specified that the area of

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