United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office General Government Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-04-29 monographic deposited born digital 48 p. GA 1.13:GGD-96-86 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86 P0b002ee18038fa71 f:gg96086 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86 GGD-96-86 Retail facilities Surveys Budget receipts Data collection operations Concessions contracts Profits Government collections Federal property management User fees Public lands Canada California Maryland Michigan Missouri Tennessee Letter Report GGD

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on government concession contracting in 1994, focusing on: (1) the extent of government concession operations; (2) the amount of and factors that affect federal concession returns; (3) how federal concession return rates compare with other governments' return rates; and (4) whether agencies' non-commission income gathering operations could be converted into concessions.<p/>GAO noted that: (1) 27 of the 75 federal departments and agencies surveyed had entered into concessioning agreements; (2) 42 of these agencies and agency components managed a total of 11,263 concessions programs; (3) 92 percent of these concession agreements were held by 6 land management agencies; (4) gross revenue from the concessions totalled $2.2 billion, but agencies lacked sufficient data to determine the gross revenues of all concession operations; (5) concessioners paid the government $82.5 million, including $64.6 million in concession fees and $17.9 million for facility repair and improvement; (6) concessioners provided the government with an additional $4.7 million in non-fee compensation by maintaining government property; (7) the government's return rate on concessioners' gross revenues was 3.6 percent; (8) other governments surveyed had average concession return rates of 12.7 percent; (9) competitively awarded concession agreements where fees were considered in the competition had higher return rates than those that were not competed; (10) although 96 percent of non-land-management-agency concessions were awarded competitively, only 8.6 percent of land management agencies concessions were awarded competitively; (11) the agencies able to retain more than 50 percent of their concessions fees had higher return rates than those agencies required to deposit their returns into treasury funds; and (12) 29 of the 75 agencies had income generating-operations other than concessions, but many of these activities could not be concession contracted because of security and privacy concerns. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86/html/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86.pdf GAO/GGD-96-86 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GGD-96-86 Letter Report GAO/GGD-96-86; Concessions Contracting: Governmentwide Rates of Return; Retail facilities Surveys Budget receipts Data collection operations Concessions contracts Profits Government collections Federal property management User fees Public lands Canada California Maryland Michigan Missouri Tennessee Title 15 Section 18a 15 U.S.C. 18a Title 16 Section 20-20g 16 U.S.C. 20-20g Title 20 Section 107-107f 20 U.S.C. 107-107f Public Law 96-375