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B-421477,B-421477.2 May 31, 2023 1 (2023-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaooxm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States DOCUMENT FOR PUBLIC RELEASE The decision issued on the date below was subject to Decision a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release. Matter of: RTD Middleburg Heights, LLC File: B-421477; B-421477.2 Date: May 31, 2023 Gordon Griffin, Esq., Hillary J. Freund, Esq., and Richard Ariel, Esq., Holland & Knight LLP, for the protester. Robert W. Foltman, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Katherine I. Riback, Esq., and Alexander O. Levine, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that the agency unreasonably evaluated the awardee's and the protester's price proposals, and insufficiently documented that evaluation, is sustained where the agency failed to provide adequate explanation and documentation to support the reasonableness of its price evaluation. DECISION RTD Middleburg Heights, LLC, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, protests the award of a lease to Michael Downing Realty Ltd, of Warrensville Heights, Ohio, by the General Services Administration (GSA) under request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 70H2414, for the lease of general purpose office space in a circumscribed area of Ohio. The protester contends that the agency's price evaluation was unreasonable and inadequately documented. We sustain the protest. BACKGROUND On October 23, 2019, GSA issued the RLP for the award of a 15-year lease of office space in the Middleburg Heights, Parma, North Royalton and Strongsville, Ohio area.1 1 The RLP covered the general terms of the procurement, such as how the agency would conduct the price evaluation (Agency Report (AR), Tab 1, RLP at 20), and provided the specifics, such as the amount and type of space sought by the agency, as (continued...)

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