General Services Administration Richard R. Butterworth, Jr. Senior Assistant General Counsel Real Property Division U.S. General Services Administration Office of the General Counsel GSA Real Property Strategies
General Services Administration 2 Goal was to standardize procurement practices and provide uniformity. Inherited the inventory of the Supervising Architect. 1949: GSA created as a procurement and a service agency
General Services Administration 3 GSA provides the following real property services: –Appraisals –Site Acquisition –Disposal Option Studies –Marketing Studies –Land Use Studies –Historic Compliance –Environmental Solutions –Land Surveys & Title Search –Outleasing –Disposal Leasing –Exchanges –Training –Retention/Disposal Studies –Report of Excess Assistance –Relocation Program –Targeted Asset Reviews
General Services Administration 4 ExcessFederal Transfer Public Use Conveyance Negotiated Sale Public Sale Agency Reports Property Excess to GSA for Disposition Determined Surplus If Not Transferred to Another Federal Agency Property Available for Certain Public Uses Up to 100% Discount To Eligible Public Bodies for Other Public Uses Fair Market Value Required Offered to Public and Private Parties Via Auction or Sealed Bid Fair Market Value Required Airport Correctional Educational Highway Historic Homeless Housing Park & Recreation Port Public Health Police/Fire Wildlife Conservation Uses: Disposal process under 40 U.S.C. Chapter 5
General Services Administration 5 Denver Federal Center
Section 111 of the National Historic Preservation Act 6
General Services Administration 7 GSA’s Tariff Building Washington, DC: Section 111 Outlease
General Services Administration 8 Old Post Office Building, Washington D.C.
General Services Administration 9 Hanger 1, NASA Moffett Field, California
Exchanges 10
General Services Administration 11 Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse San Antonio, Texas
General Services Administration 12 §412 of the General Services Administration General Provisions Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005
General Services Administration 13 Federal Triangle South Project, Washington D.C.
Energy 14
ESPCs ESPCs – CY13 – 15 projects, 9 regions Task Orders totaling about $203 million Similar program initiated in FY14 for award in CY15 15
Renewables Solicitation for MW within the PJM grid, multiple awards contemplated, DC Solar Challenge – coordinated with DOE, CEQ, OMB and White House 16
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