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B-419028 1 (2020-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebws0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States Decision Matter of: Silver Investments, Inc. File: B-419028 Date: October 26, 2020 Robert Martin, Silver Investments, Inc., for the protester. Melissa McClellan, Esq., Department of Agriculture, for the agency. Emily R. O'Hara, Young H. Cho, Esq., and Peter H. Tran, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest challenging agency's issuance of a lease contract is dismissed as untimely where protester's communications with agency did not constitute an agency-level protest, and the protest was filed more than 10 days after the notice that formed the basis of its protest was received by protester. DECISION Silver Investments, Inc., of Red Bluff, California, protests the award of a lease to Cornerstone Community Bank, of Red Bluff, California, under request for lease proposal (RLP) No. 57-9104-19-001, issued by the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service, for office space. The protester contends that the award is improper because the awardee's office space did not meet the solicitation's requirements for parking space. We dismiss the protest as untimely because it was filed more than 10 days after the protester knew, or should have known, the basis for its protest. BACKGROUND The USDA issued the RLP on October 9, 2019, for office space within Red Bluff, California. Req. for Dismissal, Tab 1, RLP at 5, 10. The RLP contemplated the award of the lease for 20 years based on the lowest-priced, technically acceptable offer submitted. Id. at 5, 27. As relevant here, the RLP indicated that the agency's minimum requirements for the leased property included 6,465 square feet of office space and 59 total parking spaces. Id. at 5. The protester submitted its proposal before the proposal due date. Req. for Dismissal at 1.

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