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Federal Personal Property: GSA Can Better Assess the Effectiveness of Its Disposal Efforts
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Federal agencies disposed of over $10 billion in unneeded personal property, ranging from sub-dollar bandages to $20 million airplanes, from July 2023 through fiscal 2025, according to a GAO review. Only about 9 percent of that property was actually reused, meaning transferred, donated, or sold rather than scrapped, with higher-value items and those posted with photographs more likely to find a second life.
GSA runs three main disposal efforts, but GAO found its performance scorecard doesn't measure the outcomes GSA itself says it wants, like timely disposals or taxpayer return on investment, and ignores its education and direct-assistance work entirely. GAO recommended GSA build better measures and start collecting the data needed to use them; GSA agreed.
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Nine percent reused out of ten billion dollars means the other ninety-one percent went wherever unwanted furniture goes, and GSA can't quite say if that's the system working or the system shrugging. Having a scorecard that doesn't measure what you claim to care about is like weighing your hay by the bale count and never checking if the bales are full. Agreeing with the recommendation is a fine first step, provided somebody actually builds the tape measure this time.
