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B-416106,B-416106.2 1 (2018-06-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduua0001 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: 901 W Walnut Hill Lane Holdings Ltd Partnership File: B-416106; B-416106.2 Date: June 11, 2018 Theodore R. Flo, Esq., Ballard Spahr LLP, for the protester. Stuart W. Turner, Esq., and Amanda J. Sherwood, Esq., Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP, for CentrePort Properties, LLC, the intervenor Helen Y. Kearns, Esq., Public Buildings Service, for the agency. Mary G. Curcio, Esq., and Laura Eyester, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision. DIGEST Protest that building proposed for lease failed to meet solicitation requirement that property be accessible to food and transit service by continuous public sidewalk is denied where solicitation did not provide for such a requirement. DECISION 901 W Walnut Hill Lane Holdings Limited Partnership (Walnut Hill), of Irving, Texas, protests the award of a lease to CentrePort Properties, LLC (CentrePort), of Fort Worth, Texas, by the General Services Administration (GSA), under request for lease proposals (RLP) No. 6TX0568, for the lease of office space. The protester asserts that the building proposed by CentrePort does not meet all of the solicitation requirements and thus is ineligible for award. Walnut Hill also protests any award to Offeror B, asserting that the building proposed by Offeror B also fails to meet all solicitation requirements. We deny the protest. BACKGROUND The RLP, issued on August 1, 2017, provided for the award of a 15-year lease of office space in Fort Worth, Texas, for the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Office of Disaster Assistance. GSA was seeking to lease approximately 141,454 of American National Standards Institute/Building Owners and Managers Association Office Area