GSA is moving ahead with the planned merger of FSS and FTS
while congressional approval of the new funding structure is
pending, the CRS report noted.
House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va.,
has questioned whether the reorganization plan is sufficient.
While he said the latest proposal would likely cut back “much
of the overlap and redundancy that existed within the old
organization,” he also questioned whether the new management
structure would provide adequate management control over
regional IT acquisitions and cautioned that it could
contribute to a lack of coordination between headquarters and
regions.
Davis has also expressed doubts that the plan “gives regional
executives the appropriate reporting authority to improve the
acquisition practices within the new zones.”
Further, the Senate Appropriations Committee added language
to the agency’s 2006 appropriations bill that would block GSA
from using appropriated funds to reorganize without approval
from both the House and Senate appropriations committees.
