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B-310941 1 (2008-03-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptavyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A G A O Comptroller General . Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States Government Accountability Office DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Washington, DC 20548 The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Decision Matter of: Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC File: B-310941 Date: March 18, 2008 Fernand A. Lavallee, Esq. and J. Philip Ludvigson, Esq., DLA Piper, for the protester. Robert A. Hauser, 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 of reasonableness of agency's cost-benefit analysis that served as basis for agency determination that government cannot expect to recover through competition substantial relocation or duplication costs involved in award of lease to other than incumbent lessor is denied where record shows cost-benefit analysis was reasonably based, and protester provides no persuasive support for assertion that a lease for its property would provide cost savings exceeding agency's relocation or duplication costs. DECISION Eisenhower Real Estate Holdings, LLC protests the decision by the General Services Administration (GSA) to award a sole-source lease to the incumbent lessor of office space for the headquarters location of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The protester, which asserts that it can provide an acceptable alternative property offering cost savings to the agency, challenges the reasonableness of the cost-benefit analysis cited as the basis for GSA's justification for the use of noncompetitive procedures and its determination that there is only one responsible source that can satisfy the needs of the agency.1 1 Eisenhower also generally asserts that GSA lacks statutory authority to use noncompetitive procedures here; as discussed below, this allegation is untimely in light of the fact that the specific arguments in support of the protester's initial general challenge were not raised until the firm filed comments 6 weeks after the protest was filed.

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