GSA is a federal procurement and property management agency created to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. GSA's 13,000 associates provide services and solutions for the workplace operations of over one million federal workers located in government-owned and leased buildings in more than 2,000 U.S. communities and overseas.

GSA’s Southeast Sunbelt Region provides products and services in the states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.  More than 1,100 GSA associates work in the Region.  They support other federal workers, located in approximately 1,300 government-owned and leased regional buildings, by acquiring:

• office space
• equipment
• supplies
• telecommunications and
• information technology

What's Happening in This Region

FTS continues to be the federal government's service provider for state of the art Information Technology (IT), Telecommunications and Professional services. Federal customers located in the Southeast Sunbelt Region call on Region 4, FTS for assistance with assisted services for IT and related solutions that they need to accomplish their missions.

• FTS provides services to a total 432 customer organizations
• FY03, Army was FTS' largest customer accounting for 95% of its sales
• FTS' largest civilian agency customers in FY03 were:
  • Office of Personnel Management
  • Department of Treasury
  • Environmental Protection Agency

Pursuant to the National Historical Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, GSA delivered the deed for the St. Simons Lighthouse to the Coastal Georgia Historical Society.  Region 4 has actively participated with the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Park Service to convey historic lighthouses to nonprofit organizations since the Act was first implemented in 2001.

GSA is proceeding to advertise for A/E services for the new Federal Building-Courthouse to be constructed in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  The A-E selection process is expected to take approximately five months and the project will be awarded once Congressional authority is granted. The city and their respective contractors met with GSA on July 7 and presented several options for a potential site.  Both parties are committed to meeting all historic preservation and environmental impact requirements prior to site selection.

GSA is proceeding with site acquisition, relocation and design of an annex to the U.S. Court of Appeals Building in Atlanta, Georgia.  The region is in the process of evaluating the feasibility and scope of rehabilitating the two buildings to be acquired into a single structure and new construction of a loading dock, secure parking, and a tunnel connector to the existing Courthouse.  It is anticipated that the A/E will be selected by mid-September 2004.

A lease contract has been awarded to C.B. Richard Ellis to design and construct a facility for the DEA/ATF Field Office in the Birmingham, Alabama central business area.  The award of this 31,000 rentable square foot lease is the culmination of several years of partnering between GSA, Operation New Birmingham, and officials of the City  of Birmingham. The estimated occupancy date will be June 2005.  The facility will be constructed on a site at the corner of  18th Street North and 10th Avenue North. The project will allow consolidation of multiple leases for the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. 

On June 17, the deed was executed conveying the U.S. Custom House located at 1700 Spangler Boulevard, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, to the Broward County Board of Commissioners for historic monument purposes.   This 1938 one story building contains 5,550 gross square feet and sits on 0.5 acre of land.