The Property Services Agent (PSA) is a British government agency, existing from 1972 to 1993. Its role is "to provide, manage, maintain and equip property used by governments, including defense, offices, , research laboratories, training centers and land ".
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PSA has its antecedents in the Ministry of Work and its previous department dating back to the Office of Work. It was created as an autonomous agent in 1972 after the Department of Works has been absorbed into the Department of the Environment.
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First First decade, 1972-1981
The agency has the task of providing, equipping and maintaining a wide range of buildings and installations for government departments, and armed services, as well as other bodies. It holds and manages lots of government civilian land, including government offices and companies throughout the UK as well as diplomatic areas abroad. It administered the Defense Department property on its behalf, both at home and abroad. Within the agency there is PSA Supplies, which provide furniture, transportation and other services, and are operated on the basis of trade funds. The clients that are served mostly are government departments, but other particular clients, the most important is the Post Office, which provides a refund service. In 1976, PSA Supplies was brand-renamed The Crown Suppliers (TCS), becoming a self-financing business under PSA.
In 1977, the agency staff numbered about 50,000, of which around 30,000 were industrial workers, including some 7,000 staff working abroad. Of the 20,000 non-industries, more than half are specialist staff - architects, civilians, mechanics and electrical engineers, quantity surveyors, building surveyors, estate surveyors, technicians and office image staff.
The Agency carries out all types of construction work - from homes and barracks to Service to offices, research facilities, airfields, shipyards and telephone exchanges for the Post Office. In 1977, the project has about 1,500 new job projects in various design stages, and about 1,000 are under construction. During that year, Agency expenses for new jobs amounted to £ 400 million.
During the first decade of its existence, the PSA is a centralized organization that controls all building and plantation management works for government departments and armed services. The PSA is the central budget holder for all such work, and leaves the contract with the private construction industry on behalf of its clients. This places the PSA in a monopoly position, and that means that client departments often have no control over their own plantation management. In 1981, the newly elected Conservative government decided that 70% of the work should be contracted out to private consultants, with the PSA still maintaining overall control.
The problem of corruption in the 1980s, and the eventual privatization
Proof of corruption at the PSA District Office of Work was revealed in the early 1980s, and as a result the government appointed Sir Geoffrey Wardale to conduct an investigation. The Wardale report was published in October 1983. The then PSA chief executive, Montague Alfred, was discharged from office as the Foreign Minister concluded that Alfred's evidence to the Committee was "contrary to government policy".
These issues, combined with the government's intention to pursue the privatization program of public organizations, led in 1988 to PSAs laid out on a commercial footing, and were obliged to bid for project work in open competition with the private construction industry. In 1990, the Property Services Agent and Crown Suppliers Act paved the way for privatization. Then on April 1, 1990, PSA was divided into two separate organizations:
- Property Ownership, which remains within the government and maintains a portfolio of civil plantations.
- PSA Services, operated as bidding commercial entities for new building works of public sector organizations; Similarly, PSA Services are free to seek employment in markets outside the public sector.
Progress toward full commercialization was completed in 1992, when PSA Services itself was further divided into three organizations:
- The PSA project (a branch dealing with a new building project), offered for sale to the private sector, and purchased by Tarmac in 1992. (Although nominally the sale, the transaction was eventually estimated by the National Audit Office for the cost government Ã, £ 81.3 million). From October 1993, they traded as TBV Consult, later renamed TPS Consult in 1997, and became part of Carillion in a demerger in 1999.
- The PSA Building Management is divided into five regional businesses for sale separately.
- PSA International (which oversees foreign diplomatic and military plantations) closed in 1993.
- Crown Suppliers (formerly PSA Supplies) are subject to separate privatizations but failed in 1991. Most businesses closed with the exception of the Liverpool Office which remains trading in the public sector as The Buying Agency (TBA).
Since the outbreak of the PSA many government departments have taken back responsibility for the management of their plantations, and established their own property management department. The largest of these is the Defense Plantation, keeping the military and land sites operated by the Ministry of Defense.
Organization and location
PSA headquarters are in Croydon, Greater London, occupying space in several office blocks of the 1960s including the Whitgift Center, Lunar House, and Apollo House. PSA also has offices in central London, and regional office networks throughout the UK.
The headquarters organization consists of various offices and the Directorate, including the Directorate of Architectural Services (DAS), the Directorate of Post Office Services (DPOS), the Directorate of Civil Engineering Services (DCES), and the Directorate of Surveying and Quantity Survey Services (DBQSS). PSA also provides building and engineering services for the armed forces, such as services provided by the Directorate of Works (Water) (DW (AIR)) for RAF. The purpose of the Directorate is to establish policies and develop standards and technical specifications for use in building work. The headquarters organization also has direct control over leading construction projects such as the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center in London.
Also located in Croydon was the PSA center facility for training of architectural and engineering draughtsmen, the Office of Training of Drawing (DOTC), in the 'C' Block at Whitgift Center in the 1970s, moved to Quest House in 1977.
The account section of the PSA is located in Ashdown House, Hastings originally built in 1966. Also located in Ashdown House, is the Directorate of Information Technology and Operations Management Systems (DITMOS), is accused of providing a database system for PSA. In 1985, 1,500 civil servants were employed at Ashdown House.
There is a UK regional network for the rest of the PSA building and plantation management work. There are offices for Scotland and Wales, and offices in the UK (in London, Leeds, Cambridge, Hastings, Reading, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester; Manchester offices including Northern Ireland in its territory). Under regional offices is the Regional Office of Work, and subsequently sub-level operates the District Employment Office (OPP). The main function of DWO is to carry out maintenance and small development projects. DWO is mostly located in urban centers where there are a number of government buildings to maintain, or on military installations.
Chief Executive
The PSA Executive Chief has the status of Second Permanent Secretary in the British civil service structure, and is accountable to the Secretary of State for the Environment.
- 1972-1974: John Cuckney (later Baron Cuckney)
- 1974-1981: W R (Sir Robert) Cox
- 1982-1984: Montague Alfred
- 1984-1990: Mr. Gordon Manzie
- 1990-1991: Patrick Brown (later Sir)
- 1991-1993: Mr. Geoffrey Chipperfield
References
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