DDOT has made a formal request that all of these facilities be put at Union Station.
If we are going to pay for it--because I can tell you this much, we are not going to pay for everything.
Have you ever thought about that or had those discussions with anyone connected with the Corporation?
That is understandable. But the fact that you found yourselves on the outside looking in from the beginning, that is unf...
At least we know that after going through all of this hullabaloo, we haven't saved the government a dime.
The most disturbing thing is that GSA has lost so much personnel, and yet it has increased realty specialists.
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.
We really wanted to centralize the delivery of the contracting for brokerage services because we had a whole lot of diff...