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GAO-25-108060 1 (May 16, 2025)

handle is hein.gao/ptyonrndgn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAiOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States May 16, 2025 The Honorable Stephen Ehikian Acting Administrator General Services Administration 1800 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20405 Priority Open Recommendations: General Services Administration Dear Acting Administrator Ehikian: The purpose of this letter is to call your personal attention to two areas based on GAO's past work and eight open priority recommendations, which are enclosed.1 Additionally, there are 16 other GAO open recommendations that we will continue to work with your staff to address. We are highlighting the following areas that warrant your timely and focused attention. Specifically: Managing federal real property. The General Services Administration's (GSA) management of federal real property has been on GAO's High-Risk List since 2003.2 Better management of the federal government's real property portfolio is necessary to effectively dispose of unneeded buildings, collect reliable real property data, and address deferred maintenance and repair. Effectively disposing of unneeded property. As you know, federal agencies face long-standing challenges in disposing of unneeded real property. In our prior work we found that GSA has not developed a process that fully leverages lessons learned from a temporary approach for reducing the federal government's real property inventory. As the agency explores new ways to dispose of federal property, implementing our recommendation to develop a process with relevant stakeholders to collect and share lessons learned would give GSA an opportunity to leverage stakeholders' knowledge and potentially address challenges with disposing of real property. Developing this process would also provide stakeholders, including Congress, with insights into how the federal government could better dispose of its real property. Improving federal real property data. GSA needs to collect accurate, complete, and useful real property data to manage its real property portfolio, including any efforts to dispose of excess property. In February 2020, GAO reported that 67 percent of the street addresses in the public database of federal real property were incomplete or incorrectly formatted. We recommended that GSA continue to work closely with the Office of Management and Budget and federal 1GAO considers a recommendation to be a priority if when implemented, it may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, High-Risk Series: Heightened Attention Could Save Billions More and Improve Government Efficiency and Effectiveness, GAO-25-107743 (Washington, D.C.: Feb. 25, 2025). GAO-25-108060 GSA Priority Recommendations Page 1

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