Federal Real Property: National Performance Review Recommendations
(Testimony, 09/21/93, GAO/T-GGD-93-47).

This testimony discusses the General Service Administration's (GSA)
federal real property activities.  In light of the overall poor quality
of federal management, both the National Performance Review (NPR) report
and GAO have urged GSA to scrap its current way of doing business and
adopt a new approach that draws on entrepreneurial and competitive
principles.  Traditional management, with its emphasis on centralization
and uniformity, no longer allows the government to respond quickly and
effectively. The NPR calls for an end to GSA's office space monopoly,
separating GSA's roles as policymaker and service provider and creating
a new real property asset management enterprise.  The NPR report also
recommends suspending acquisitions of new federal office space and
simplifying procedures for acquiring small blocks of space and for
renewing leases.  This testimony discusses in detail GAO's views on the
NPR recommendations.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-GGD-93-47
     TITLE:  Federal Real Property: National Performance Review 
             Recommendations
      DATE:  09/21/93
   SUBJECT:  Real property
             Real property acquisition
             Real estate purchases
             Federal procurement policies
             Federal property management
             Property and supply management
             Real estate leases
             Property depreciation
             Cost control
             Construction costs

             
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