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Agencies Downgraded in PMA; OMB Sees Its Own Deadline Looming
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) downgraded five agencies on the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) real property initiative in its March 31 2007 quarterly scorecard report. Meanwhile, OMB will itself soon be pressured to perform, as it approaches a Congressionally mandated deadline to identify and value the first 100 federal properties to be disposed of as surplus.

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Realty a La Carte: Understanding GSA’s Value-Added Realty Services
Disposing of assets that no longer fit the federal real property portfolio is an ongoing challenge for Federal landholding agencies. Through award of the Value Added Services (VAS) solutions contract, GSA’s Office of Real Property Disposal has made efficient and valuable realty services available to Federal landholding agencies for which such services are non-core functions. This article, by GSA’s Laura Schroff, explains VAS in greater detail.