SOLICITATION NOTICE
X -- J&A to Extend Lease at SEC Operations Center
- Notice Date
- 4/7/2011
- Notice Type
- Justification and Approval (J&A)
- NAICS
- 531190
— Lessors of Other Real Estate Property
- Contracting Office
- Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of Real Property and Facilities Support, Operations Center, 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, Virginia, 22312
- ZIP Code
- 22312
- Solicitation Number
- sec-data-va1
- Archive Date
- 5/9/2011
- Point of Contact
- Beverly E Walker, Phone: 2025517426, Laura Strohbach, Phone: 2025517314
- E-Mail Address
-
walkerb@sec.gov, strohbachl@sec.gov
(walkerb@sec.gov, strohbachl@sec.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Award Number
- JA2011-0044
- Award Date
- 3/8/2011
- Description
- The SEC has a sole source requirement to obtain through a short term extension approximately 147,000 rentable square feet (rsf) of headquarters office space in the Washington, D.C. area, to continue housing business and information technology operations that are currently being housed and performed on site at 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria VA (“Ops Center”). The current SEC lease at the Ops Center expires October 31, 2011. The extension will be for a three year term with cancellation rights after two years. This requirement arose as a result of budget changes and uncertainties that have forced the SEC to reevaluate earlier space acquisition planning. In July 2010, the SEC entered into a lease for approximately 900,000 rsf of office space at Constitution Center (“CC”) located in Southwest Washington D.C., for a 10-year term to be delivered in phases commencing in Fall 2011. This space was obtained following expanded SEC responsibilities and increased appropriations and budget authorizations from the Dodd-Frank Act and other Congressional and budget planning actions. Congress has not yet adopted an appropriation for the SEC for FY 2011. An SEC request to Congress for anomaly funding above FY 2010 levels to allow fulfillment of prior Congressional plans was rejected. As a result, the agency is currently funded under a continuing resolution that authorizes the agency to operate at last fiscal year’s funding levels. These funding constraints have prompted the SEC to implement substantial cuts in its operating budget. Much of the hiring planned out of the agency’s FY 2010 funding was halted due to the budget uncertainties and retractions as the agency entered FY 2011 without funding in place to support its annualized costs, and FY 2011 hiring has been severely restricted. In Fall 2010, as a result of these funding constraints, the SEC released rights to most of its space in CC, which was in turn leased by the landlord to other Federal agencies. At that time, the SEC contemplated retaining rights to 300,000 rsf in CC to, among other things, potentially house the Virginia requirement located in the Ops Center and the satellite Shawnee facility. The SEC conducted a cost benefit analysis that determined that the rent difference between CC and the Ops Center could be offset by, among other things, the reduced shuttle costs and increased work efficiencies that could be realized by eliminating the Virginia location. Moving the Ops Center to CC would also be in keeping with the President’s June 4, 2010 Memorandum directing agencies to consolidate locations where cost effective. The budget uncertainties prompting the SEC to seek to release its space in CC have still not been resolved. The current continuing resolution expires on March 4, 2011. Moving the Ops Center requirement into CC, as previously contemplated, would require the SEC to remain firmly committed to the CC space for the 10-year term of the lease. The SEC has determined that the uncertainty of its budget and its space and hiring needs on a long term basis counsel against retaining any continuing long term presence at CC, and that the SEC should seek an alternative resolution for any remaining long term SEC space rights in CC. Further, additional office space that has become available through attrition at the SEC’s Station Place headquarters has enabled us to consolidate approximately 200 of the Virginia employees and contractors into Station Place. This strategy will allow the SEC to consolidate staff from the Shawnee Road satellite office to the Ops Center, enable the SEC to terminate that short term lease, and realize savings by reducing costs associated with the space and associated operating costs. This consolidation has reduced the amount of space that would be needed for consolidation at CC, and has already achieved much of the efficiency that would have been obtained by consolidation at CC. In these circumstances, the SEC has determined that a short-term extension of the Ops Center lease to allow the SEC to obtain more certainty as to its long-term budget and space needs would be in the agency’s current best interest.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/SEC/OAS/OPS/sec-data-va1/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: 6432 General Green Way, Alexandria, VA 22312, Alexandria, Virginia, 22312, United States
- Zip Code: 22312
- Zip Code: 22312
- Record
- SN02419150-W 20110409/110407234205-bcffb8a0394728e0b92f33a09836bac5 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
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