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A G A O Comptroller General
. Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548
Decision
Matter of: King Construction Company, Inc.
File: B-298276
Date: July 17, 2006
James E. Krause, Esq., Regan Zebouni & Walker, PA, for the protester.
Gary F. Davis, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Kenneth Kilgour, Esq., and Christine S. Melody, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging terms of solicitation for lease of build-to-suit office space as
unduly restrictive of competition is denied where agency demonstrates a reasonable
basis for required approach.
DECISION
King Construction Company, Inc. protests as overly restrictive the terms of
solicitation for offers (SFO) No. PKY-01-LO-06, issued by the General Services
Administration (GSA) for lease of build-to-suit office space for the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) in Louisville, Kentucky. The protester asserts that the SFO is
overly restrictive because it requires experience constructing Class A office space, to
the exclusion of other relevant experience; it requires experience with Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)' projects; and it contains redundant
qualifications for an offeror's team members.2
'According to the U.S. Green Building Council, the LEED Green Building Rating
System promotes [d]esign and construction practices that significantly reduce or
eliminate the negative impact of buildings on the environment and occupants. To
be LEED certified, buildings must meet standards providing specialized criteria for
particular types of projects. The lowest of four levels of certification is certified.
U.S. Green Building Council, An Introduction to the U.S. Green Building Council and
the LEED Green Building Rating System, October 2005 at 4, 27-28, https://www.
usgbc. org/FileHandling/show-general-file.asp?DocumentlD= 742>.
'A final ground in the original protest, challenging the terms of section 2.7(D) of the
solicitation, has been rendered academic by the agency's decision to delete the
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