General Services Administration (GSA) seeks to lease Office, Warehouse and Secured Wareyard space in Buffalo, WY

The General Services Administration (GSA) seeks offers to lease office, warehouse/light industrial, and secured wareyard space in Buffalo, Wyoming, under Request for Lease Proposals (RLP) 5WY0078, with offers due January 8, 2027. GSA is procuring on behalf of the Bureau of Land Management's Buffalo Oil & Gas Field Office. No set-aside is used. Offers are due at 5:00 PM Pacific Time per the RLP, and the notice names the GSA Leasing Portal (leasing.gsa.gov) as the submission channel while the RLP names the RSAP electronic platform, so confirm the channel before submitting.

Place of performance is the City Limits of Buffalo, Wyoming. Office space must range from 16,018 to 16,861 ANSI/BOMA Occupant Area (ABOA) square feet, warehouse/light industrial space from 6,242 to 6,570 ABOA square feet, and wareyard space is at least 19,380 square feet per the notice, though the RLP specifies at least 19,780 square feet. The notice lists 86 surface parking spaces with no structured or reserved parking. The lease is 20 years firm with no option terms, and estimated occupancy is Fall 2028.

Distinctive requirements include Facility Security Level II standards, a warehouse with a minimum 16-foot clear height and 30-foot column spacing, and municipal electricity, gas, water, and sewer. The site cannot be adjacent to correctional facilities, schools, residential areas, or heavy industrial areas. Offered space cannot sit in the 1-percent or 0.2-percent annual chance floodplain. Offerors must demonstrate Energy Star certification or qualify under statutory exceptions. Offers must comply with Section 889 of the FY19 NDAA. New construction offers must meet LEED-NC Silver or Green Globes Two requirements for projects of 10,000 RSF and above. Davis-Bacon Wage Determination WY20260041 (modification 2) applies. Design Intent Drawings must be approved before award, and offerors must submit a swing space plan with the initial offer.

Sensitive RLP documentation is not posted on SAM.gov. Interested offerors must request it from the Lease Contracting Officer's designee, and access requires verification of a legitimate business need to know. Offerors must execute a commission agreement with the GSA broker, Carpenter/Robbins Commercial Real Estate Inc. (contact Timothy Pavek), and submit it with the initial offer. Lease Contracting Officer Darrin Hotaling is the government point of contact. No incumbent is named.

Evaluation uses best-value tradeoff with three factors: Proposed Architectural Design Concept (45%), Proposed Site Design Concept (35%), and Past Performance (20%). Technical factors are significantly more important than price. Price is evaluated by present value, discounting annual costs at 5 percent over the lease term.