The Capitol CREAG Team provided Program and Project Management oversight to the GSA National Capital Region (NCR) Northern Virginia Advanced Acquisition Program (AAP). The Advanced Acquisition Program was a pre-competed fast track Government lease procurement service that was used by the GSA NCR to facilitate lease acquisitions in place of the conventional lease procurement process.
By the end of our tenure, the Northern Virginia AAP was the preferred lease procurement process to complete new and expiring government leases in the NCR.

The National Transportation Safety Board needed senior real estate consultants to manage a full design-build procurement of a new world class NTSB training facility in Northern Virginia. The requirement consisted of a design build 72,000 SF transportation laboratory (research and testing facility/conference and training type space), 30,000 SF free-span warehouse/airplane hanger (transportation testing laboratory/research), plus 30,000 SF of exterior simulation court to fulfill the mission of the National Transportation Safety Board International Training Academy and supporting laboratory and research functions. The assignment commenced in Q3 2000; space had to be designed, built and ready for occupancy by December 2002.

Several Government initiatives created a tremendous increase in activity: 150 active contracts for repair, alteration, and large renovation of over $200 million in construction value. GSA in this region did not have sufficient, experienced staff to oversee this activity.
Capitol CREAG supplemented the existing GSA facilities professionals with 10 on-site staff members who provided Acquisition Management, Construction Management, and Facility Assessment services throughout the entire 8-district GSA Region 4, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Agency:
Materials Management Services,
US Department of the Interior,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Project Challenge:
The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the Federal Agency that manages the nation’s natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $8 billion per year in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands. MMS had a 200,000 SF headquarters office building severely damaged during Hurricane …