having worked with them on many occasions. They are the GOLDEN goose for the Gov. They are in to everything. Vehicles,Support equipment,Land,Furniture,Office supplies,computers,recycling.You name it they are in it.
I am a retired GSA employee after 35 years. I signed my name to millions of dollars in contracts. As CO I purchased everything from pens to remodeling warehouses. I bought the government fleet of vehicles during my tenure.
I remember agencies b*tching about Federal Supply Service (FSS) for years and then GSA stopped being a mandatory supplier. guess what- our sales skyrocketed once the agencies were forced to buy the stuff themselves or chose to come back to us.
PBS (Public Building Service) executives were a different bred though. I am not wholly surprised at the excesses, since I saw the whole crap about team building conferences come in to play under -— the Clinton and the Bush administration. I kid you not. I was forced to go to them. What a waste I said then. What a waste it is now. The powers took away all the money from our projects to pay for this crap.
I am glad all the excess came to light. but I will still defend the agency’s purpose. We did offer a good service.