GSA Negotiating Lease Extension for FCC Ahead of Lease Ending October
The FCC’s current landlord may want a 20 percent premium over the current rent to extend the agency’s lease, the commission said in its 2018 budget request. The FCC needs the extension because its lease will expire in October, but…
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its new building won’t be ready until FY 2019, and current landlord Parcel 49C’s protest of the General Service Administration’s award of the bid for the new headquarters to Trammell Crow is pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals, the budget papers said. GSA is negotiating the extension, the document said. The 20 percent rent increase would be an extra $9 million per year, the budget said. “The first six months after the lease award is critical as the Commission will be required to meet design and construction timetables established by the GSA and the new lessor,” the budget said. “The FCC is also required to provide the details related to specialized areas and requirements related to electrical, heating, air conditioning, floor loading, specialized construction and the equipment to support them.” The commission also wants to use auction funds to create “public facing” and internal spectrum visualization tools, the budget said. The visualization tools would aid in helping the public and the agency understand “who has the rights to different spectrum bands at different locations,” the budget request said. The FCC also will be working to transition its systems “100 percent” to the cloud, the budget document said. “The FCC will proactively engage security engineers and architects to ensure the modernization of systems in the cloud are secure and adhere to Federal mandates and regulations to include two factor authentication.”