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B-414338 1 (2017-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtkf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GO 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: SK Hart Properties, LLC File: B-414338 Date: May 11, 2017 S. Lane Tucker, Esq., Stoel Rives LLP, for the protester. Leigh Ann Bunetta, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency. Gabriel D. Soil, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging price provision in request for lease proposals is denied where the protester has not demonstrated that the provisions violate applicable procurement laws and regulations, and the provision is otherwise unobjectionable. DECISION SK Hart Properties, LLC (SK Hart), of Anchorage, Alaska, protests the terms of request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 5UT0131, issued by the General Services Administration (GSA), Public Building Service, for leased office space in Salt Lake City, Utah. SK Hart, the incumbent lessor, argues that the RLP's fixed tenant improvement allowance provision will result in a flawed price evaluation and is prejudicial to offerors that can accomplish the tenant improvements for less than the mandated amount. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND GSA issued the RLP for the lease of between 17,936 - 19,929 ABOA1 square feet within Salt Lake City, Utah. RLP at §§ 1.02(A), 1.03. The RLP contemplates the award 1 The term ABOA is an acronym for American National Standards Institute/Building Owners and Managers Association (ANSI/BOMA) Office Area. RLP at § 1.02(A). It is the GSA-recognized standard, as defined by the ANSI/BOMA, for measuring the area where a tenant normally houses personnel, furniture, and/or equipment. See General Services Acquisition Regulation (GSAR) § 570.102; RLP § 1.02(A).

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