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PLRD-82-41 1 (1982-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmra0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548fc12'5 PROCUREMENT, LOGISTICS, 6',/ AND READINESS DIVISION February 17, 1982 Mr. Richard 0. Haase CommissionerU .U I Public Buildings Service General Services Administration it9785 Dear Mr. Haase: Subject: Evaluation of the General Services Administration's Use of Life Cycle Costing in the Procurement of Building Materials (PLRD-82-41) We have evaluated the General Servfces Administration's (GSA) implementation of life cycle costing (LCC) for materials used in the maintenance and repair of buildings (code 945600). LCC is a procedure used to estimate the total cost of a product over its useful life. LCC can be a valuable tool in analyzing relative costs of products such as materials used in the maintenance and repair of buildings. Use of this technique can identify those products which may be most cost effective in a particular appli- cation and can serve to measure any savings which would result. We interviewed officials of the Public Buildings Service at GSA headquarters, Washington, D.C., and obtained information on GSA's use of LCC for materials. We reviewed various GSA regu- lations, publications and records pertaining to material usage. We found that GSA makes virtually no application of the LCC con- cept in the provision of such materials. GSA has not published a data base on materials for use in LCC estimating of maintenance and repair projects. No guidelines have been published regarding how to evaluate building materials or products on a LCC basis. GSA has not previously considered developing a data base and no consideration is being given to such an effort at this time. A summary of the results of our evaluation follows. Use of LCC in GSA GSA does not make LCC studies of building materials to establish which may be most cost effective over the useful life of the product. Those studies which have been made in the past were largely in the nature of materials performance studies rather than evaluation of building materials on a LCC basis. (945600) &L~t O7 A

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