Insights

Practical articles on winning federal leases — from the perspective of the people who used to evaluate your offers.

How to read a GSA Request for Lease Proposals (RLP) like a contracting officer

An RLP is two documents in one: a shopping list and a rulebook. Here's the five-minute first-read method that tells you whether to bid — and what the evaluator will score first.

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GSA lease requirements, decoded

What the standard requirements section is really asking for — and the three lines landlords skim past that decide compliance.

How does federal lease pricing actually work?

Shell rent, amortized TIs, operating costs, and the present-value math that picks the winner — explained without the spreadsheet dread.

Firm vs. soft term: the risk nobody explains

Every federal lease has an exit door for the government. Here's how to find it, price it, and negotiate around it.