Mismanagement of US Government Buildings Costs $180Mln Over Five Years

Poorly run buildings at the US General Services Administration (GSA) have led to a loss of $180 million over a five year period, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a report.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The GAO said it reviewed 12 years of annual data on 1,283 of the GSA’s buildings and discovered 251 of them had been assessed as non-performing or under-performing at least 75 percent of the time.

“Average annual losses of almost $36 million [for fiscal years 2009 to 2013] were attributable to 116 of GSA’s 251 consistently poor-performing buildings; 33 of these buildings accounted for almost 93 percent of the overall loss,” the report said on Friday.

The GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars

The GSA’s is an acquisition arm of the US government that manages buildings.