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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA)
21 DAYS TO RESPOND TO ARCHIVE; OUTSTANDING REQUESTS AS OLD
AS 1 YEAR
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Recordkeeping Issues - GSA's correspondence indicated
that its eleven regional FOIA offices are responsible for
administering their own FOIA programs and that their pending
requests were not included in the response. |
Ten Oldest - GSA responded approximately 21 business
days after the request was made; it reported ten FOIA requests
ranging from September 24, 2002 to December 6, 2002. The requests
included news media requests for materials relating to a security
guard service contract in Region 10 and offenses and incidents
at government facilities in Region 10, a commercial request
for contract materials concerning a security guard service
contract in place for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
a commercial request for contact information for project officers
of active contracts, a commercial request for documentation
regarding the bundling of services under GSA's national broker
contract, a news media report regarding studies of the presence
of asbestos and asbestos abatement efforts at federal facilities,
a request for documents related to contracts with MCI Worldcom
and Verizon, and a contract, schedule and list price relating
to a specified contract. |
Workload Statistics - Although GSA's reported statistics
from 1998 through 2002 indicate that the agency has received
a decreasing number of FOIA requests (down 19.08% from 1798
in 1998 to 1455 in 2002), the number processed each year also
has decreased (down 30.62% from 2028 processed in 1998 to
1407 processed in 2002). GSA's processing rate per year --
a comparison of the number of requests processed to the number
received -- increased from 91.15% in 1998 to 96.70% in 2002.
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Backlog Statistics - GSA's backlog of pending FOIA
requests has decreased over the five year period, although
it has increased for each of the last three reporting years
(from 166 FOIA requests pending at the end of 1998 to 141
FOIA requests pending at the end of 2002). GSA's backlog as
a percentage of FOIA requests processed each year has increased
from 8.19% in 1998 to 10.02% in 2002. Its backlog rate per
year -- a comparison of the number of requests pending at
the end of the year to the number received during that year
-- has increased from 7.46% in 1998 to 9.69% in 2002. |
Processing Time - While its median days to process
has ranged from 14-20 days over the 1998-2002 period, the
median days that backlogged requests have been pending has
ranged from 18-29 days. No processing times are reported for
expedited requests. |
TEN
OLDEST REQUESTS
GSA
Response Letter
GSA September
13, 2002 Letter
GSA September
24, 2002 Letter
GSA September
25, 2002 Letter
GSA October
1, 2002 (1) Letter
GSA October
1, 2002 (2) Letter
GSA October
8, 2002 Letter
GSA October
11, 2002 Letter
GSA October
17, 2002 Letter
GSA November
25, 2002 Letter
GSA December
6, 2002 Letter
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