GAO said GSA should better promote the use of property that an agency has declared excess, rather than new purchases. Image: Rena Schild/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffGAO has said that while there are some two dozen recommendations it has made to GSA still open, only six of those fall into the “high priority” area—all of which fall under the general categories of real property management, management of other federal property, and information privacy.
The GAO said that over the last year the GSA did address priority recommendations related to assessing its prospectus process for leases and capital projects and communicating the results to Congress.
However, the report noted that federal real property management has been on its high-risk list since 2003, an issue that “centers directly on GSA.” It cited pending recommendations to “ensure greater accuracy in publicly available federal real property data, enhance efforts to reduce the federal government’s real property inventory, and strengthen GSA’s ability to make sound decisions.”
Regarding management of other property—so-called personal property, which can range from office supplies to stores of precious metals—the GAO pointed to findings calling for the GSA to better promote the use of property that an agency has declared excess, rather than new purchases.
It also pointed to findings that the GSA “had not fully defined and documented the role of its designated privacy official” for protecting the personally identifying information the agency collects and stores.
The GAO added that several government-wide high-risk areas also have direct implications for the GSA, including management and acquisition of IT, improving personnel management and cybersecurity protections.
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