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GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                  Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                             of the United States




Decision


Matter of: The Flaherty Family Trust

File:        B-414563.3

Date:     August 16, 2018

Diana Parks Curran, Esq., Curran Legal Services Group, Inc., for the protester.
Benjamin D. Lorber, Esq., General Services Administration, for the agency.
Alexander 0. Levine, Esq., and Jennifer D. Westfall-McGrail, Esq., Office of the General
Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Protest alleging that lease solicitation contains insufficient information for offerors to
propose meaningful rental rates is denied where the solicitation provides offerors with
the agency's general requirements and any remaining uncertainties can be accounted
for within offerors' proposed rental rates.

2. Protest challenging lease solicitation parking requirements is denied where the
spaces being solicited represent the agency's actual requirement and where the
requirement is not unduly restrictive of competition or inconsistent with other solicitation
provisions.
DECISION

The Flaherty Family Trust, a small business located in Atherton, California, protests the
terms of request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 6GA01 98, issued by the U.S. General
Services Administration (GSA) for lease space in Savannah, Georgia for the
Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP).
The protester contends that the solicitation fails to provide offerors with sufficient
information regarding the agency's requirements, and is internally inconsistent and
ambiguous.

We deny the protest.

BACKGROUND

The solicitation was issued on March 17, 2017, seeking proposals for a 10-year, fully-
serviced lease for office space for the CBP in Savannah, Georgia. The solicitation

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