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B-414207,B-414207.2 1 (2017-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtgs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A O Comptroller General Accountabilty * Integrity * Reliability 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 Decision been approved for public release. Matter of: Vanguard Building LP File: B-414207; B-414207.2 Date: March 21, 2017 Richard L. Moorhouse, Esq., and Josef S. Przygrodski, Esq., Greenberg Traurig, LLP, for the protester. Elizabeth H. Johnson, Esq., and Adetokunbo Falade, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Elizabeth Witwer, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that solicitation for lease of office space unduly restricts competition is denied where the agency demonstrates a reasonable basis for requiring 30-foot column spacing and 8-feet 4-inch ceilings. DECISION Vanguard Building LP (Vanguard), of Potomac, Maryland, protests the terms of request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 5DC0390, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Buildings Service (PBS), to lease office space for a federal tenant agency. The protester contends that the RLP's specifications exceed the agency's minimum needs and unduly restrict competition. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA is conducting this procurement on behalf of the Peace Corps. Currently, the Peace Corps' international headquarters occupies 161,725 rentable square feet (RSF) at The Paul D. Coverdale Peace Corps Headquarters Building, also known as the Vanguard Building, which is leased from the protester under lease No. GS-1 1 B-70255. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) at 1; Memorandum of Law (MOL) at 2; Agency Report (AR), Exh. 11, Acquisition Plan, at 1. The Vanguard Building has been leased by GSA on behalf of the Peace Corps since 1988 and the current lease expires in May 2018. COS at 1.

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