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GAO-09-392R 1 (2009-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaanmd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Am'-,GA 0 T E IAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 February 20, 2009 The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton Chairwoman Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Subject: Government Printing Office: Issues Faced in Obtaining a New Facility Dear Madam Chairwoman: The main facility for the Government Printing Office (GPO) is inefficiently configured, aging, and much larger than needed. GPO has examined several options for obtaining a new facility, including leasing a new facility to be built on its current site while outleasing (leasing as a landlord) its property to partially offset operational costs. As requested, we reviewed (1) GPO's analysis of options to obtain a new facility and the extent to which GPO has followed leading practices for capital decision making and (2) issues, if any, that impede GPO's efforts to obtain a new facility. This report summarizes the results of our work that we provided to your staff during our February 5, 2009 briefing. Our briefing slides can be found in enclosure I. Summary GPO partially followed leading practices for capital decision making during analyses of options that it conducted in 2005 and 2008, but it did not conduct cost-benefit analyses that explored a full range of options for obtaining a new facility. * While both of GPO's analyses considered innovative approaches for obtaining a new facility, several options were overlooked, such as reconfiguring the current facility. Comparing a wider range of options would help decision makers determine the most cost-beneficial way to obtain a new facility. * In addition, although GPO identified some benefits of leasing a new facility to be built on its current site, GPO did not conduct cost-benefit analyses-systematic, quantitative assessments that take a broad, long-term view of future effects. * Furthermore, in estimating operations costs, neither of GPO's analyses fully considers the effect of current labor and electricity costs. Instead, the analyses rely on industry benchmarks to estimate operations expenses. As a result, we believe that these analyses overestimate the savings to be gained from leasing a new facility. GAO-09-392R Government Printing Office Facility Issues

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