.The IG had criticized the Public Buildings Service’s estimates of the cost of deferred maintenance Image: DCStockPhotography/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffAn inspector general report has credited the GSA with taking steps to address recommendations made in a 2021 report warning of safety risks and the potential for rising costs of deferred maintenance in federal buildings it owns or leases.
In that report, the IG criticized the Public Buildings Service’s estimates of the cost of deferred maintenance—finding they varied from well below to well above outside cost estimates—and its strategy for reducing that backlog, which as of 2019 stood at $1.93 billion, up from $1.23 billion five years earlier. The GSA agreed with recommendations in that report to improve cost estimates, although it only partly agreed with a recommendation to place greater emphasis immediate liabilities by prioritizing projects to reduce them.
In a follow-up report, the IG said that in reviewing steps taken, it “determined that PBS has taken appropriate corrective actions to address the recommendations. We determined that no further action is necessary.”
The report did not contain an updated estimate of deferred maintenance in those buildings; reports from the GAO, the CBO and from IGs of other agencies have similarly warned of cost growth and safety risks of such backlogs elsewhere, especially at DoD-controlled facilities.
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