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anticipated to grow at 3 3% per year, a problem i s apparent when viewing the fact that processing product iv i ty trends have shown l i t t l e improvement Being a labor-intensive func t ion , processing costs are forecast to nse at a rate fas ter than the growth o f mail volume In the near term i t i s ejq) ected that some labor saving mechanization resulted i n savings o f 5 8 thousand man-years By 1975, when presently conceived modes o f mechanization are completely implemented, an additional 7 7 thousand man-years w i l l be saved Hie s t a r t l i n g fact i s that th i s saving represents only 2% of processing man-years o f clerk and mailhandlers Quite evident i s the forecast that the expansion o f present mechanization w i l l neither do the job o f ra is ing product iv i ty nor reduce the processing costs o f postal operation This processing represents the majori ty o f the costs increase forecast f o r the t o t a l postal program Something w i l l have to change, postal rates w i l l increase dramatically i n the next two decades or the service w i l l deteriorate substant ial ly I t I S apparent that the Post Of f ice mission and requisi te f a c i l i t y acquisi t ion needs and methods are not e i ther a panacea f o r the Post Of f ice or relatable i n pa ra l l e l to Department o f Defense construction procurement a c t i v i t i e s B THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION The major l eg i s la t ive authority f o r the present funct ioning o f GSA i s the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act o f 1949 which consolidated scattered functions r e l a t ing t o construction and maintenance o f buildings under the Administ r a t o r o f General Services and the Public Buildings Act o f 1959 which authorized GSA to construct public bmldings including the use o f contracts f o r the accomplishment o f such construction The material on the construction system of the General Services Administration which follows I S taken from "Construction Contracting Systems," a report on the systems used by PBS and other organizations which resulted from a study conducted from Septenber, 1968 to March, 1970 by Will iam J Gregg, Chairman, Public Bui lding Service, GSA, Ralph C Nash, Associate Dean, George Washington University Law Center, and Phi l ip G Reid, Deputy Director, Federal Procurement Regulations S t a f f , Of f i ce o f General Counsel, GSA The study group met with PBS personnel, reviewed current operating s t a t i s t i c s , reviewed previous studies o f PBS operations (There have been over 100 o f these studies since the mid-1950's, ^approximately 35 o f which dealt with some aspect o f design and construction)
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with $176,000,000 fo r leases and $125,000,000 f o r repairs and iii9) rovements In 1969, the Senate Committee on Appropriations urged the resunption o f a reasonable program of construction, point ing out that the current increased use o f leasing I S false econoDQr At the present time, 212,000,000 t o t a l sq f t o f space (80% owned)
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tn AVfMGE TIME FOt GSA TOCONSRUCT AtlOMILUON OFFICE MMIOINC-MMO \ \^ \ \ \ \ Figure hi Present PBS building cycle f o r construction of a $10 m i l l i o n o f f i c e building
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Federal Procurement Regulations (GSAPR5) , and i n a series o f 13 handbooks The study groiqi's recomgoendations which have s igr i i f i can t app l i c ab i l i t y t o the m i l i t a r y construction system are as follows CI)
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in cn PBS SEQUENTIAL DESIGN-BIDCONSTRUCT CYCLE MODIFIED PBS SEQUENTIAL DESIGN-BIDCONSTRUCT CYCLE CONSTRUCTION MANAGER CYCLE (24 months)
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-Ji»Yr-24 M O -S MO(Prallmlnary Con t ract ) - W Y r , 7 MO • (SaUt Contract)
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