GSA, which sets government-wide policies for agencies to control their vehicle fleets, needs to improve how it applies those standards to its own fleet, according to an IG report.
A 2011 executive order requires all federal agencies to determine their optimal fleet inventory using a vehicle allocation methodology developed by GSA. The purpose wasto eliminate unnecessary vehicles as well as to assist agencies with vehicle purchase and lease selections.
The report said that GSA’s office of administrative services is responsible for completing the vehicle allocation methodology for GSA’s internal fleet. While it completed the allocation methodology per the requirements—and achieved a 17 percent reduction in its own fleet when the initial reduction goal was only 4 percent—that office did not receive data on a substantial number of the vehicles and did not document any follow-up attempts to gather the missing information.
GSA management concurred with recommendations to address those issues.
