Did GSA ever come to the government to ask for authority to retain that fee themselves?
What is it that you say the brokers are bringing to the table that the in-house people are not?
If you are telling me that that money comes back to the government because of free rent, that would be a target.
There is some cost to the government that it simply has to assume in maintaining a core function.
That is very, very bad, very, very bad, and something we are going to have to look into.
This notion of partnering with small businesses is really important.
You are going to have to break it up to do anything with small businesses.
Would you submit for the record here your small business plan and who have gotten those contracts?
I suppose I take umbrage that the Federal worker is deprecated.
I don't think you should underestimate people who every day have to deal with the private sector the way you do.
Well, I particularly want to thank each of you for your testimony because you are the folks that we have been talking about.
I want to thank each and every one of you. This panel would have had a huge hole in it...
I have to take personal responsibility.
We are trying to increase small business use within the Federal Government and certainly within the GSA.
I would like you to submit that for the record. I would like all of you to do it.
Lower rent leasing rates for the government.
I congratulate you on doing it.
We really wanted to centralize the delivery of the contracting for brokerage services because we had a whole lot of different contracts goin...
