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GGD-81-75 1 (1981-05-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbwr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 GENRAL GOVERNMNrT OVISION B-203122 MAY 6 188. The Honorable Patricia Schroeder House of Representatives Dear Ms. Schroeder: 115147 Subject: Uprocurement and Development of U.S. Postal Service Management Training and Conference Center (GGD-81-75) As requested by your December 1, 1980, letter we have looked into the Postal Service's development of a management training and conference center in Potomac, Maryland. We reviewed the Service's study supporting the development of the center and dis- cussed the study with officials in the Service's Employee and Labor Relations Department and Real Estate and Buildings Department. In addition, we toured the rented facilities in Bethesda, Maryland, and the newly purchased facilities in Potomac. The results of our work, which are summarized below, indicate that the Service made a sound decision in purchasing the Potomac site. In 1976 the Postal Service began considering the development of a new national training and conference center to replace its existing national center in Bethesda and smaller training facili- ties in Philadelphia, Chicago, Memphis, and Los Angeles. Over the next 3 years the Service considered many possibilities for its center but found none it considered worthwhile. In early 1979 serious consideration was given to the con- struction of a center on one of three sites--Fort Belvoir, in Virginia; the Goddard Space Flight Center, in Maryland; and the Agriculture Research Center, also in Maryland. The Goddard Space Flight Center site was eliminated because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration placed severe restrictions on its use, and the availability of the Agriculture Research Center site was withdrawn by the General Services Administration. This left the Belvoir site as the only feasible alternative until the Potomac site became available in April 1980. To allow suffi- cient time to study the available alternatives, the Service ob- tained an option to purchase the Potomac site and subsequently purchased it for $6.8 million. (990516)

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