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Agency Snapshot:
General Services Administration The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) provides innovative workplace solutions, products and services for Federal agencies to foster an effectively functioning, sustainable, and transparent government for the American people. GSA’s Public Buildings Service designs, constructs, manages and leases work space and also disposes of surplus government real property holdings. GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service provides contractual solutions to Federal agencies. GSA has a history of leadership in energy conservation, sustainable building design, and sourcing environmentally-preferable products and services.
Senior Real Property Officer: Desa Sealy
Agency Real Property Profile
As real estate provider for most of the Federal civilian government, GSA provides workspace in 2,100 American communities to more than one million Federal employees in 100 Federal agencies. These employees are accommodated in a portfolio of 370 million rentable square feet of space comprised of 1,500 Federally owned buildings (179 million rentable square feet) and more than 8,100 leases in privately-owned buildings (191 million rentable square feet). The pie chart to the right shows GSA’s managed inventory, segmented by property type as of FY2010.
GSA buildings are designed to provide efficient work environments and welcome the public. The buildings and leases are located to help promote sustainable local economic development. GSA is a leader in sustainable design and a proving ground of innovative green building technologies and practices.
As of June 2011, to carry out its own mission, GSA employees occupied a total of 7.8 million rentable square feet, of which 5.3 million is Federally owned, and 2.5 million is leased from the private sector. The "All Others" slice of the graph is made up of numerous minor categories that includes laboratories, hospitals, prisons & detention centers and industrial buildings.
Reduction in Real Property Usage
GSA’s cost savings goal is $475 million savings by the end of fiscal year 2012. The chart “Progress Towards the Goal” identifies GSA’s achievement to date in real property cost savings.
Breakdown of Reduction
Savings will be comprised of approximately $80 million of sales proceeds from excess assets, $5 million of cost savings from the operating costs associated with those assets, and $45.8 million of foregone R&A investments. In addition to cost savings in the aforementioned areas, GSA is also analyzing the potential for savings in the following categories in order to capture the remaining balance of $344.2 million in savings for the agency’s $475 million goal:
- Project savings due to markets and scope changes
- Savings associated with converting lease projects into Federal solutions
- Operational savings
- Savings due to Exchanges
- Other Miscellaneous project savings
