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7 Conclusions and Recommendations
7 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 103-111
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IMPETUS FOR TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE The committee determined that implementation of successful federal facility renewal strategies must be approached as an asset management solution solving an asset management problem. Today's federal facility management operating environment is much like yesterday's operating environment: not enough money is being invested in federal facilities, which impacts agency mission execution 103
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DEFINING THE ELEMENTS OF A FEDERAL FACILITIES RENEWAL STRATEGY The committee began its work by defining renewal and establishing context for federal facility renewal strategies. In Chapter 1, the committee defined renewal as the extension of an asset's functionality beyond its expected service life through significant renovation, replacement, or repurposing.
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Committee Statement of Task and Defining Elements for Facility Renewal Strategies The committee's task was "to identify broad-based and practical strategies for federal facilities managers to continue investing in, and renewing, federal real property portfolios in alignment with their authorized purpose." The committee concluded its deliberations by defining the following key elements of any agency strategy on the renewal of federal facilities: • An asset management systems approach is critical for real property port folio management to ensure and assure alignment with mission objectives and priorities; to integrate annual operating costs with planned, periodic investment in (capital) construction and rehabilitation; and to mandate its use in statutory, policy, and agency directives.
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RECOMMENDATION 2: Implement a Real Property Capital Plan The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should clarify its require ments for agencies' annual real property capital plans as detailed in OMB Circular A-11's Supplement -- Capital Programming Guide and OMB Memorandum M-20-03, "Implementation of Agency-wide Real
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Specific requirements include the following: • Defining how agencies are to use the National Strategy to establish priorities and objectives for the efficient use of real property, to include addressing the Government Accountability Office's real prop erty high-risk issues, and • Establishing requirements that link performance reporting of bud get execution for the real property capital plan to National Strat egy objectives, as reviewed annually by the agency in the context of agency strategic plan reporting, such as through application of the Operational Readiness Principle. Furthermore, chief management officers and chief budget officers should ensure they coordinate their agency's response to OMB M-20-10 (Issuance of an Addendum to the National Strategy for the Efficient Use of Real Property)
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Furthermore, the General Services Administration (GSA) , in coordina tion with the Federal Real Property Council and under the direction of OMB, should create an independent database of component inventories for federal facilities, beginning with the extensive data collected for the Builder system, and make it available to qualified users and acces sible by popular capital planning and facility management systems.
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CONCLUSION Robust, effective federal facility renewal strategies are possible when implemented using disciplined facility asset management systems; successful implementation of disciplined asset management systems is enhanced when using ISO 55000 standards. This asset management systems approach requires agencies to be more attentive to dynamic mission requirements and stakeholder expectations.
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110 STRATEGIES TO RENEW FEDERAL FACILITIES TABLE 7-1 Crosswalk of Findings and Recommendations
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(USAF 2019) The committee believes that this focused message is how all federal facilities renewal strategies should be viewed and tailored to support each federal agency's mission.
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