General Services Administration: Better Data and Oversight Needed to
Improve Construction Management (Letter Report, 06/27/94,
GAO/GGD-94-145).

The General Services Administration's (GSA) construction program
continues to be plagued by major problems. Construction contracts
experience substantial cost growth; many contract changes that
contribute to cost growth are authorized to overcome design and planning
problems; and incomplete and inaccurate data--combined with a lack of
criteria for measuring and evaluating cost-growth--impede effective
program oversight. These problems are not new. In fact, GSA has been
criticized repeatedly for problems linked to the management and
administration of contract modifications. GSA has tried to improve the
management of the construction program and avoid some of the problems
that have contributed to contract modifications. Without sustained
attention to better design and planning and improved data, however, GSA
can expect to continue to experience huge cost increases on its
contracts and will not be in a good position to head off problems before
they occur.

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 REPORTNUM:  GGD-94-145
     TITLE:  General Services Administration: Better Data and Oversight 
             Needed to Improve Construction Management
      DATE:  06/27/94
   SUBJECT:  Government facility construction
             Construction contracts
             Construction costs
             Contract administration
             Management information systems
             Cost overruns
             Planning
             Contract modifications
             Contract options
             Architects
IDENTIFIER:  GSA Repairs and Alterations Construction Automated Tracking 
             System
             GSA Prospectus Development Study
             National Performance Review
             GSA Building Construction and Repair Program
             
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