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Federal Real Property: GSA Outleasing and Restrictions on Participation of Elected Officials

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date July 25, 2018
Release Date July 25, 2018
Report No. GAO-18-603R
Summary:

What GAO Found The General Services Administration (GSA) is authorized under certain circumstances to lease unneeded space to private businesses and other nonfederal entities—a process known as outleasing. GSA outleases at least 20 percent of space in six federally-owned buildings, as of June 2018, ranging from part of the space in two buildings to all of the space in four other buildings. In April 2018, GSA finalized a new program guide that it anticipates will generally introduce a more standardized approach for its officials to follow in the agency’s outleasing. GSA officials told us that GSA contracting officers will continue to have discretion in developing terms and conditions of outlease agreements, subject to the general requirement that these contracting officers must act “in the best interests of the U.S. Government.”  Eight of the 11 leases for the six outleased buildings include one or more provisions restricting certain participation by members of Congress, and three of those same provisions also restrict certain participation by elected federal executive branch officials.

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