General Services Administration
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US General Services Administration |
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| State level | Federation |
| position | Independent authority |
| founding | July 1, 1949 |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| Authority management | Emily W. Murphy , administrator |
| Servants | 11,742 (2008) |
| Web presence | www.gsa.gov |
The General Services Administration ( GSA ) is an independent agency of the federal government of the United States that supports and administers various federal agencies. Its headquarters are in the General Services Administration Building in Washington, DC The GSA was founded on July 1, 1949.
tasks
The GSA provides offices and stationery , telecommunications equipment and transportation capabilities to the US government . The administrative tasks also include planning to minimize costs. In this respect, it is comparable to the Federal Administration Office in Germany.
The agency employed 11,502 people in 2014 and has an annual budget of $ 20.9 billion. The annual tenders in 2009 had a financial volume of US $ 66 billion and are used for the administration of federal property worth US $ 500 billion, which mainly comprised 8,600 own and leased buildings and a pool of 217,000 vehicles. The Public Buildings Service responsible for real estate manages, among other things, the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center , the second-largest federally owned building after the Pentagon .
In the event of a change of office from one US president to another , the GSA issues a letter to the future elected president allowing him and his team to enter and use government buildings and offices. There is no federal election officer in the US; this letter amounts to a formal declaration by the US government of the winner of the presidential election.
history
The GSA was founded on July 1, 1949 on the proposal of the Hoover Commission by the Reorganization Act of 1949 (Public Law 109, 81st Cong., 1st sess.). On 31 May 2006, with Lurita Doan first woman Government Leader that authority.
The agency is often criticized in the US for being inefficient and corrupt . For example, the agency spent over $ 820,000 on food, entertainment, and other amenities for a staff conference with 300 guests in Las Vegas in October 2010. This received widespread attention in the US media landscape following the publication of an investigation report in April 2012 and was sharply criticized by both conservative and liberal commentators.
The GSA plays an important role in the change of office from Donald Trump to Joe Biden . The agency chief Emily Murphy only confirmed Biden and his vice-president Kamala Harris on November 24, 2020 as the "obvious winner of the election". She had previously refused to give Biden and his employees access to government buildings, funds and employees in preparation for the takeover of government.
organization
The head of the authority has the official title Administrator of General Services . This is appointed by the US President and confirmed by the US Congress . Emily W. Murphy has held the position since the end of 2017 .
The GSA consists of three basic services ( National Services ):
- Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) - Procurements
- Public Buildings Service (PBS) - Real Estate
- Technology Transformation Service (TTS) - technology
There are also twelve so-called staff offices and two independent offices:
- Office of Government-wide Policy
- Office of the Chief Financial Officer
- Office of Human Resources Management
- Office of the Chief Information Officer
- Office of Administrative Services - Internal administration of the GSA
- Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs - Advises on cooperation with Congress
- Office of Strategic Communication - communication with authorities of the GSA
- Office of Small Business Utilization - Better access to GSA tenders for small businesses
- Office of General Counsel - Legal advice and representation
- Office of Civil Rights - Equality and Non-Discrimination in GSA Programs
- Office of Mission Assurance
- Office of Customer Experience
- Office of Inspector General
- Board of Contract Appeals
The now independent National Archives and Records Administration was part of the GSA until 1985.
The Federal Protective Service is responsible for securing the GSA's properties . It does this in cooperation with private security services . Since 2014 there is a subordinate authority called 18F responsible for government digital services.
Regions
The authority maintains one regional office for each GSA region.
(As of May 16, 2017)
Publications
Web links
- www.gsa.gov (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.gsa.gov . GSA Historical Highlights. Accessed February 14, 2011. (English)
- ↑ GSA - About us (English)
- ↑ www.gsa.gov GSA Properties Overview. Accessed February 14, 2011. (English)
- ↑ www.gsa.gov Facilities Management Overview. Accessed February 14, 2011. (English)
- ↑ www.gsa.gov . GSA Fleet - Leading the Way. Accessed February 14, 2011. (English)
- ↑ washingtonpost.com: A Trump appointee is refusing to give Biden necessary transition resources (English)
- ↑ Ferrel Heady: The Reorganization Act of 1949 , Public Administration Review , Vol. 9, No. 3, Summer, 1949 (English)
- ↑ www.gsa.gov US General Services Administration Administrators. Accessed February 14, 2011. (English)
- ↑ www.gsaig.gov Office of Investigations: 2010 GSA 2010 Western Regions Conference, April 2, 2012, accessed April 7, 2012. (English)
- ↑ US election 2020: White House allows secret service briefings for Joe Biden , Frankfurter Rundschau of November 24, 2020, accessed on November 25, 2020.
- ↑ GSA Regions. GSA, accessed on May 16, 2017 .