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The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is the United States federal law which established the General Services Administration (GSA). [1] The act also provides for various Federal Standards to be published by the GSA. Among these is Federal Standard 1037C, a comprehensive source of definitions of terms used in ...
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the federal judiciary's administrative arm, in an internal memo issued on Thursday said it received the lease inquiry from the U.S. General Services ...
In 1973 GSA created the Office of Federal Management Policy. GSA's Office of Acquisition Policy centralized procurement policy in 1978. GSA was initially responsible for emergency preparedness and stockpiling strategic materials to be used in wartime until those functions were transferred to the newly created Federal Emergency Management Agency ...
An email sent last week from GSA headquarters in Washington instructed regional managers to begin terminating leases on roughly 7,500 federal offices nationwide. “Lease terminations are the clear priority at this time,” according to a Jan. 29 email from a senior GSA manager, a copy of which was provided to the AP by a GSA employee.
The first private sector lease was signed with investment banking firm Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc. The building hosts conferences, trade shows, cultural events, and outdoor concerts. Post-9/11 , security requirements for high-profile federal buildings has limited the amount of public access anticipated by the center's designers.
The Conversion Support Center transferred to GSA in 1979 and became the core of GSA’s Office of Software Development and Information Technology (OSDIT). [13] [14] Like FEDSIM, OSDIT provided technical experts to other agencies for a fee. In 1985, because of the small number of its Air Force-specific projects, FEDSIM transferred from the Air ...
GSA (the property owner and manager for the U.S. federal government) began seeking to lease or build a structure to house the new agency in late 1965. [12] Donald T. Kirwan, chief of GSA's leasing division, knew Nassif from a previous lease negotiation and discussed the siting of a building and its size with him. [12]
GSA would provide financial guarantees to enable the developer to obtain financing for the building's construction, as well as agree to a long-term lease of the structure. Lease-purchase gave GSA the option of buying the land and building at the end of 20 or 30 years, with its lease payments being put toward the cost of the structure.