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G A 0 Comptroller General
of the United States
United States Government Accountability Office
Washington, DC 20548 DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a
GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been
Decision .approved for public release.
Matter of. Exec Plaza, LLC
File: B-400107; B-400107.2
Date: August 1, 2008
Fernand A. Lavallee, Esq., Jeffery R. Keitelman, Esq., and Eric M. O'Neill, Esq., DLA
Piper US LLP, for the protester.
Edith Toms, Esq., and Elizabeth Johnson, Esq., General Services Administration, for
the agency.
Jonathan L. Kang, Esq., and Ralph 0. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST
Protest challenging terms of a solicitation for lease of office space that apply only to
the incumbent lessor is denied where the agency demonstrates that the requirements
are reasonable, despite imposing unequal burdens on the protester.
DECISION
Exec Plaza, LLC (Exec) protests the terms of solicitation for offers (SFO) 08-008,
issued by the General Services Administration (GSA) for the lease of office space for
the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). The protester contends that the solicitation is unduly restrictive of
competition because it contains burdensome requirements that apply only to the
incumbent lessors.
We deny the protest.
BACKGROUND
The SFO seeks offers for the lease by GSA of approximately 574,164 square feet of
office space in Rockville, MD, on behalf of NCI. GSA currently leases office space
for NCI under multiple leases in four buildings in Rockville at 6120 and 6130
Executive Boulevard (these two buildings are owned by the protester and are
collectively known as Executive Plaza), 6116 Executive Boulevard, and 2115 East
Jefferson Street. The office space for NCI is provided under [deleted] separate
leases: [deleted] leases for Executive Plaza, [deleted] lease for 6116 Executive](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaocrptawbb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)