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GSA administrator warns of billions in deferred maintenance, urges higher prospectus thresholds
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GSA Administrator Ed Forrest told a House subcommittee that deferred maintenance across federal real estate is enormous and that GSA needs greater access to funds and higher prospectus thresholds to move repairs and disposals faster; he urged Congress to back a "Project 410" mindset to cut procurement timelines.
GSA Administrator Ed Forrest told the House Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee that the agency faces a sweeping deferred-maintenance problem and needs new authorities and funding to fix it. "My name is Ed Forrest," he said in his opening remarks, and described hiring independent construction and engineering consultants to catalog federal properties and quantify the true liability.
Forrest said previously published estimates of deferred maintenance vary widely and cited an internal figure of about $26 billion while noting some reports show a liability as high as $340 billion. "It may be eye popping," he said, adding that…
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