GSA: 3000 federal health workers staying in Rockville
The JBG Cos. of Chevy Chase came out the winning bidder again as the General Services Administration reaffirmed its decision to keep some 3,000 federal Health and Human Services Department workers at the company's Parklawn office building in Rockville.
The developer won a 15-year lease for 935,000 square feet, worth about $450 million, at 5600 Fishers Lane. The GSA decision rejected the appeals of three losing bidders, some of whose objections had been supported by the federal Government Accountability Office.
The award has been a hotly contested one between Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, with some of the losing bidders — and Prince George’s officials — trying to land the project there.
The lease award "was a sound business decision” based on weighing costs against location, said Cathy Kronopolus, public buildings service regional commissioner for GSA’s national capital region.
"GSA used our Best Value methodology for the selection, which allows us to balance price with the qualities and features we seek in a location," she said in a statement. "Parklawn will provide first-class office space, in an environmentally sustainable building, proximate to a Metrorail station, at a good value for the American taxpayer."
The GAO had concluded in June the bids should be reviewed again after protests lodged by the King Farm complex in Rockville owned by Penrose of Vienna, Va., and competing proposals by One Largo Metro LLC, controlled by Peter Ng Schwartz Management Co., and Metroview Development Holdings LLC in New Carrollton. The University Town Center complex in Hyattsville was not reconsidered because its owner did not appeal the original award to JBG.
The losing bidders still have an opportunity to further protest the GSA award to JBG through the GAO, but the GAO would not unilaterally raise further objections, according to its legal counsel office. Calls to the losing bidders were not immediately returned.
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The GAO had concluded in June the bids should be reviewed again after protests lodged by the King Farm complex in Rockville owned by Penrose of Vienna, Va., and competing proposals by One Largo Metro LLC, controlled by Peter Ng Schwartz Management Co.,
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The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) have recently begun working together to clarify any perceived discrepancy between the two organizations’ positions on auditor independence. The results of this effort thus far are presented below in a statement written by Sam McCall, city auditor for the city of Tallahassee, Fla., in consultation with Jeanette Meixner Franzel, director, financial management and assurance for the GAO, and Basil Pflumm, vice president of The IIA’s Global Practices Center. The statement is intended to summarize the outcome of discussions between the two groups, highlight the compatibility between IIA and GAO independence standards, and help government auditors better understand how to provide services in compliance with both organizations’ guidance.
In his article, “A Caution Light for Government Auditors” (April 2003, Internal Auditor), author Michael Barrier encapsulates the view of some government auditors that the GAO Independence Standard casts doubt on the compatibility between consulting and auditor independence and has chilled the expansion of audit services by government internal auditors. This “chill” results from the assumption that the GAO’s description of consulting, as a nonaudit service, is synonymous with The IIA’s description of consulting in its International Standards for the Professional Practice of Internal Auditing (Standards), formerly called the “Red Book.”
As a result of the perceived disconnect between the GAO’s Government Auditing Standards, also known as the “Yellow Book,” and The IIA’s Red Book terminology and requirements, The Institute and the GAO have entered into dialogue to understand any differences about the substance of work performed and to provide appropriate guidance to IIA members as well as government and nongovernment auditors who use the Yellow Book to guide their activities.
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