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By: FEDweek StaffGAO has said that all five of its open priority recommendations for the GSA involve property management, noting that the general area has been on the GAO list of high-risk federal programs since 2003.
The assessment, one of a series the GAO has begun issuing to agencies, cited recommendations including that GSA ensure that street address information in the public database is complete and correctly formatted;
GAO said that over the last year the agency had carried out one of its priority recommendations, a quality control plan for improving the quality of its data regarding the performance of commercial real estate brokers with whom GSA contracts.
Outstanding recommendations include that GSA fully assess the prospectus process for leases and capital projects including identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks associated with the process that may limit GSA’s ability to manage its assets portfolio; communicate the results to Congress along with any proposed changes to the process that may require legislative action to implement; perform a new assessment of the DHS headquarters consolidation project; and develop new cost estimates for that project including an independent evaluation of the estimates.
It also noted that a number of other topics on the high-risk list “also have direct implications for GSA and its operations” including improving the management of IT acquisitions and operations, improving strategic human capital management, ensuring the cybersecurity of the nation, and government-wide personnel security clearance processes.
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