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B-176707 1 (1972-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkju0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - Not to be released outside th enera- o • .7 Accounting Office except on the basis of specific prova isLEASEpt WASHINGTON. o.C. 2o48 - I7 RELEASED : , B-176707 217 Dear Senator Cranston: / Your letter dated June 30, 1972, requested that we con- tact the General Services Administration (GSA) to determine whether an investigation of the bidding procedure for the Shreveport, Louisiana, Federal facility was advisable. Your request apparently stemme-V +fiT- Y ihormation given to you by Pollack-Pacific Corporation. We inquired into the solicita- tion, bid, and award of this project and discussed the re- sults of our work with your office. Subsequently, your of- fice requested that the information we had obtained be presented in a written report. 'After the House and Senate Committees on Public Works / approved a prospectus for leasing the Shreveport facility, GSA issued a solicitation for offers dated December 23, 1971, to 62 prospective offerors. GSA solicited these offers under the authority of section 302(c)(10) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (63 Stat. 377), as amended. GSA stated its needs as about 116,000 net usable square feet of office, storage, and special-purpose space to be provided in a building to be constructed on a 48,000 square foot parcel of land (front half of block 20) on which GSA held assignable options to purchase at $420,140.25. In addi- tion to the 116,000 square feet, the solicitation specified that two floors (basement and subbasement) would be required for parking areas. The solicitation stated that any desired explanations or additional information regarding interpretations of the con- ditions or specifications must be requested from GSA in writ- ing and that oral explanations or instructions were not bind- ing. GSA's policy is to negotiate leases except where all factors are present which would permit true competition and where the formal sealed bid method is required by law. The negotiation procedure has been used for about 93 percent of the leases awarded. Because the lease for the Shreveport facility was to be negotiated, GSA solicited offers rather than bids which are normally associated with procurements made under formal ad- vertising and sealed bid procedures. Offers were solicited under three different propositions: 10n33

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