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GGD-96-7R 1 (1996-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaclcw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: N )O United States (AO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-266153 April 11, 1996 The Honorable Doug Bereuter House of Representatives Dear Congressman Bereuter: This letter provides information on several factors that contributed to the government's costs to construct a small Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) office building at the Lincoln, NE, airport. We developed this information in response to your request in which you expressed concerns that the federal government seems to be paying more than the private sector to construct small buildings, such as the one in Lincoln. As you requested, we are also providing information describing recent major legislative and related administrative initiatives to reform the federal procurement process. APPROACH The information in this letter was developed from our on-site visit to the Lincoln building; reviews of FAA's contract and project files on this building; data and observations provided by the contractor that constructed the building, other contractors in the Lincoln area, the Lincoln Builder's Bureau, and a national company that specializes in construction-cost publishing and consulting; and interviews of responsible FAA officials in Washington, D.C.; Kansas City, MO; and at the Lincoln airport. We also reviewed the applicable federal procurement laws and regulations and FAA's implementing policies and procedures. We identified major procurement reform legislation enacted since the Lincoln building was constructed in 1994 and discussed this legislation and related administrative reform efforts with cognizant officials of FAA, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP), and the General Services Administration (GSA). We did our work between September 1995 and February 1996 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. We requested oral comments on a draft of this letter from the Secretary of Transportation and the Administrator of FAA or their designees and the prime GAO/GGD-96-7R Lincoln NE Building

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