"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 different contracts going in a whole lot of different directions."
"Did they have to certify as they sign a lease that they have abided by--does somebody have to sign on a dotted line that the conflict of interest controls have been enforced in this----"
"For your own safety, you need to have someone certify that that breach--given the fact--you can only do so much monitoring."
"What kind of mix, for example, what kind of role that will play is still under discussions."
"We know the moment the lease is signed, therefore we have a way to plan our work."
"whoever is the appropriate person ought to take responsibility for certifying that the conflict of interest regulations--obviously, we want to look at them in connection with--or guidance in connectio..."
"I have asked whether--and we should have asked GSA whether or not they are using the same measures this year that they were using 2 years ago, for God's sake."