GSA Memo on Public Buildings Service A-76 Competitions

October 4, 2004 MESSAGE FOR ALL GSA ASSOCIATES

FROM: STEPHEN A. PERRY, ADMINISTRATOR (A)

SUBJECT: Update on PBS A-76 Streamlined Competitions

During the past Fiscal Year, PBS initiated 30 competitive sourcing competitions involving 169 positions at GSA. This was a lengthy, complex and formidable undertaking and I would like to express my thanks to the many, many GSA associates who participated in this project in Central Office and in every Regional Office. The planning, training, implementation and participation in these competitions by PBS and other GSA associates were of great value to GSA and the American people. Of the 30 competitions, 28 have been completed. I would like to share with you the results of these competitions. Ten competitions found that our customers and the American taxpayers will be best served by continuing the efficient and effective service provided by GSA associates. In-House Performance Decisions: Estimated Cost Avoidance Study # Activity Location FTE (over 5 year period) GSA-PBS-200408 Mechanical Battle Creek/ 19 $1,430,724.00 Maintenance Cedar Rapids/ Lansing & Flint, MI GSA-PBS-20045PMC4 Mechanical Ft. Wayne/ 4 $ 45,054.00 Maintenance Indianapolis/New Albany, IN/Columbus, OH/Springfield, IL/ GSA-PBS-200415 Mechanical Huron, SD 1 $ 47,547.00 GSA-PBS-200418 Mechanical Bozeman, MT 1 $140,145.00 GSA-PBS-200420 Mechanical Salt Lake City, UT 1 $ 22,308.00 Inspection GSA-PBS-200421 Mechanical Pierre, SD 2 $ 9,871.00 GSA-PBS-200422 Mechanical Sioux Falls, SD 2 $225,435.00 GSA-PBS-200425 Mechanical Ambrose/Portal, ND 1 $158,536.00 GSA-PBS-200427 A/C Equip. New York, NY 3 $246,934.62 Inspection GSA-PBS-200426 Building & Birmingham, AL 7 $120,428.00 A/C Equip. Atlanta, GA Insp. & Savannah, GA Wage Grade Tampa, FL Total Estimated Cost Avoidance: $2,446,982.62 Eighteen competitions found that our customers and the American taxpayers would be best served by converting service to the private sector. Although our associates delivered very good service in these areas, we discovered after very careful study that private contractors could deliver comparable service at a much lower cost. Many of our associates performing these functions were able to obtain employment opportunities with the contractors selected. Convert to Contract Performance Decisions: Estimated Cost Savings study # Activity Location FTE (over 5 years) GSA-PBS-200401 Mechanical Kansas City, MO/ 10 $1,538,634.00 Maintenance St. Louis, MO GSA-PBS-200402 Custodial Serv. E. Philadelphia, PA 10 $439,063.00 (3 Years) GSA-PBS-200403 Custodial Serv. W. Philadelphia, PA 7 $630,271.00 (3 Years) GSA-PBS-200404 Custodial Serv. Mt. Hope, WV 3 $132,317.47 (3 Years) GSA-PBS-200405 Mechanical Harrisburg, PA 10 $806,925.04 (3 Years) Maintenance/ Huntington, WV Planning and Scranton, PA Estimating GSA-PBS-200407 Mechanical Cleveland, OH 9 $317,705.48 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200409 Mechanical Bemidgi/Fergus 9 $350,948.00 Maintenance Falls/Ft. Snelling/ IntÆl Falls/Baudette/ Noyes/St. Cloud, MN GSA-PBS-200410 Mechanical Chicago, IL 20 $1,678,529.59 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200411 Mechanical Milwaukee, WI 2 $123,073.00 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200412 Mechanical Ft. Worth, TX/ 10 $835,871.00 (3 Years) Maintenance Muskogee, OK GSA-PBS-200413 Operations & Haines, AK 2 $493,531.00 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200414 Operations & Pocatello, ID 1 $ 2,487.00 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200416 Operations & Richland, WA 1 $154,171.00 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200417 Operations & Spokane, WA 1 $ 3,332.00 Maintenance GSA-PBS-200419 Mechanical Denver, CO 2 $185,878.00 Inspection GSA-PBS-200423 Mechanical Pembina, ND 1 $115,519.00 GSA-PBS-200424 Mechanical Dunsieth/St. John, ND1 $ 60,697.00 GSA-PBS-200406 Space Orange County, CA 7 $3,075,547.00 Planning San Francisco, CA Total Estimated Cost Savings: $10,944,499.58 Total Estimated Savings & Cost Avoidance: $13,391,482.20 The competitive sourcing process worked as it was intended, allowing us to initiate a very careful study of various activities to determine how best to meet the needs of our customers and those of American taxpayers. We accomplished that in a thoroughly researched and effective manner, retaining those functions that the government sector performs best and providing a mechanism to determine which are best performed by the private sector. As has been my routine, I will keep you up to date on all future competitive sourcing developments, including very shortly, information on the competitive sourcing study planned for the GSA marketing function. For further information, you are invited to visit the Office of Performance Improvement web page at http://insite.gsa.gov/_opi to review additional information regarding Competitive Sourcing or to contact GSA's Competitive Sourcing team with your comments, questions, and concerns at competitive.sourcing@gsa.gov.