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RCED-84-95 1 (1984-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabngw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20648 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY, AND ECOOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-2 14395 MARCH 2, 1984 The Honorable Elizabeth H. Dole The Secretary of Transportation 123550 Dear Madam Secretary: Subject: The Federal Aviation Administration's process of Selecting Locations for Automated Flight Service Stations (GAO/RCED-84-95) We have completed our review of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA's) selection process for leased automated flight service stations (AFSSs). Our review was undertaken at the request of Congressmen Gene Taylor, John P. Murtha, Connie Mack, Carl D. Pursell, and John McCain. In late October 1983, we briefed their offices on the individual AFSS site selections in which they were particularly interested. The purpose of this report is to (1) summarize the results of our review of FAA's overall selection process, including problems we identified in FAA's program to competitively lease AFSS buildings, the effects of those problems, and certain corrective actions FAA has taken and (2) make recommendations for additional improvements in the selection process for those sites not yet selected. In letters dated June 21, 1983, and October 3, 1983, we advised FAA that we had found that FAA (1) was presenting inaccurate future AFSS employment levels to communities interested in being selected and (2) had provided insufficient guidance for its regions to evaluate site communication costs, which resulted in FAA's selecting at least two AFSS locations that had long-term costs of about $450,000 more than other bidding communities. FAA subsequently provided amended information to communities on future expected AFSS employment and has also provided addi- tional specific guidance to its regional offices for estimating communications costs in future site selection evaluations. We believe the revised evaluation guidance should provide better assurance to affected communities that FAA will make more cost- effective selections. However, we have also noted several other cost elements in communities' proposals, such as maintenance and utilities costs, (341053) I

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