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Doan Tells Committee: GSA Making Significant ProgressGSA #10333 March 28, 2007 Washington, DC – The U.S. General Services Administration has spent the past 10 months tightening internal financial controls, instituting sound management practices and seeking innovative ways to improve all of its operations, GSA Administrator Lurita Doan told a key U.S. House committee today. Doan told House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform members that her top imperatives since being sworn in on May 31, 2006, have been to restore fiscal discipline at GSA, and to develop “a culture of continuous improvement by igniting the entrepreneurial energies throughout the entire organization.” “These efforts over the past 10 months have resulted in a restoration of a clean audit, a balanced budget, and the identification of approximately $1 billion of wasteful or unneeded spending,” Doan said. The Administrator said that she’s proud of efforts initiated to assist minority and small businesses. “This is a personal and professional passion for me, and I will continue the efforts I began the day I entered GSA to help minorities start their own successful businesses in their communities,” she said. Doan also addressed committee concerns in detail regarding: a report GSA sought to detail its work with minority and disadvantaged small businesses; the nature of a regularly scheduled team-building “brown bag” lunch with non-career employees; successful contract extension negotiations between contract experts in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service and Sun Microsystems; GSA actions affecting the accounting industry; and her actions regarding GSA’s Office of the Inspector General. See the full text of Administrator Doan’s testimony. #### Founded in 1949, GSA serves as a centralized procurement and property management agency for the federal government. GSA manages more than one-fourth of the government’s total procurement dollars and influences the management of $500 billion in federal assets, including 8,300 government-owned or leased buildings and 170,000 vehicles. GSA helps preserve our past and define our future, acting as a steward of more than 420 historic properties, and as manager of USA.gov, the official portal to federal government information and services. GSA’s mission to provide superior workplaces, expert technology solutions, acquisition services, purchasing and e-travel solutions and management policies, at best value, allows federal agencies to focus on their core missions. Did You Know? Employees ranked GSA among the top 10 federal workplaces in three of four broad categories in the FY 2006 Federal Human Capital Survey, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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