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B-146929 1 (1972-10-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagbw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * e UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFIC fp/.- WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LOGISTICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION OCT 251972 LM096264 Dear Mr. Sampson: In fiscal year 1971 the acquisition cost of excess per- sonal property that became available for redistribution to Federal agencies was about $5.2 billion. About $1.7 billion was classified as reportable property--property having a high potential for use by other Federal agencies--and $3.5 billion was classified as nonreportable property--property having low use potential or of specialized interest to only a few agen- cies. The General Services Administration (GSA) transferred /7 for further Federal use reportable property costing about $422.7 million and nonreportable property costing about $328.5 million. Our review of GSA's management of the excess personal property program showed that the establishment of a central- ized7 automated screening procedure would improve the oppor- tunities to identify excess property that could be returned to the GSA supply system. Also, we noted that periodic de- velopment of information on the relative effectiveness of the various methods used by GSA to promote the transfer of excess personal property could be used to improve program management. INCREASING RETURN OF EXCESS PROPERTY TO SUPPLY SYSTEM GSA policy provides that suitable GSA-managed property which is excess to agencies will be returned to the GSA sup- ply system inventory when economically justifiable. Gener- ally, this policy means that new excess property will be returned to the supply system when the inventory stock level for the item is low enough to permit acceptance of the excess without causing overstockage. We reviewed GSA procedures and practices for acquiring excess property for return to the GSA supply inventory and found that in many instances GSA did not acquire excess prop- erty that could have been returned to inventory. In some cases, GSA purchased stock items from commercial sources at the same time 6r shoftly after similar items were available as excess property.

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