There is some cost to the government that it simply has to assume in maintaining a core function.
If you are telling me that that money comes back to the government because of free rent, that would be a target.
What is it that you say the brokers are bringing to the table that the in-house people are not?
Did GSA ever come to the government to ask for authority to retain that fee themselves?
The most disturbing thing is that GSA has lost so much personnel, and yet it has increased realty specialists.
At least we know that after going through all of this hullabaloo, we haven't saved the government a dime.
Would you recommend a more precise contract so that everyone is on the same page and you don't have people complaining?
Do you mean the brokerage didn't understand that once you contract with the Federal Government, you are in a different b...
This is what we are going to expect from the agency. It ought not be what do we do today, what do we do tomorrow?
Who needs GSA? I raised that question in my opening statement.
Well, what is it that the brokers did not understand? Was this not written? Was it not written out clearly enough?
I am for anything that saves the government money in the state we are in.
Frankly, in our case it is the taxpayer.
I am very sympathetic to the private sector when they complain about overbureaucratization. I hate it.
I mind someone throwing it in my face that we are saving some money and not showing me the bottom line where the savings...
In fact, it is about the same cost, according to the IG, nobody has been able to find any value added in terms of money,...
Who needs the GSA? Why shouldn't the Agency go to these broker contracts and do their own thing?
Are you suggesting that that figure in your testimony is strictly due to the broker contract? What about market conditio...
