The United States Postal Service established a separate office to deal with lessors that own significant number of properties across the country. The office provides for consistency in dealing with lessors for 145 facilities in matters concerning contractual obligations such as deferred maintenance, lease negotiations, and litigation. The master lease is the base document containing provisions for rental rate, duration of lease, purchase options, termination options, and maintenance and tax issues. It is also flexible regarding specifics for each individual facility.
For more information, contact Mr. Marcus Nielson at (801) 261-1080 or via e-mail at mnielse2@email.usps.govReal Property Leasing Innovations (Gains from Streamlining Lease Transactions), U.S. General Services Administration, 2001GSA’s PBS, NCR has developed two interrelated parts of its innovative “Hybrid Model for Federal Government Leasing” that have the potential to substantially reduce the Federal Government’s transaction cost and time for placing Federal workers in leased office space. These are 1) an electronic commerce (e-commerce) enhancement of the existing Advanced Acquisition Program (AAP) and 2) capture the rebates of tenant broker commissions.The AAP procurement method generates a standing inventory of best and final offers for leased space in NCR. Their latest automated improvements allow the Request for Offers to be filled out and returned online. Amendments can be done online as well, right up to the Best and Final Offers cutoff date; this must still be submitted as a hard copy. Offerors still have the option to work with hard copy throughout if they wish, although this will be phased out overtime. In addition to online AAP, the National Capital Region has sought and received a legal opinion allowing GSA to recapture in its lease transactions the commission fee for the tenant broker (also called the participating or cooperative broker). This fee has in the past gone unclaimed by GSA’s broker contractors; it either reverted to the property owner or was paid to the primary broker. This change in practice has thus far netted NCR $4.2 million of previously unclaimed commissions; a further $1 million is expected to be claimed by the end of the fiscal year.For more information, contact Mr. Santoni Graham at (202) 708-6855 or via e-mail at santoni.graham@gsa.gov This is a Federal best practice submitted to the U.S. General Services Administration Office of Real Property for competition in the GSA Achievement Award for Real Property Innovation Program.
