GSA Fails Geospatial Data Act Compliance for Third Consecutive Audit
A new Inspector General report reveals GSA remains non-compliant with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018. Widespread location errors in federal real property datasets threaten facility planning, security readiness, and procurement efficiency.
The General Services Administration (GSA) remains out of compliance with the Geospatial Data Act of 2018 following its third consecutive adverse audit from the agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The report, following similar findings in 2022 and 2024, reveals systemic governance failures, inaccurate real property datasets, unmaintained spatial inventories, and a failure to enforce statutory requirements to search existing federal datasets before procuring new geospatial resources.
At the center of the watchdog's findings are widespread spatial mapping errors within GSA’s flagship real estate repositories: the Federal Real Property Profile (FRPP) and the Inventory of Owned and Leased Properties (IOLP) datasets. The OIG discovered that approximately 26 percent—representing 78,624 properties—in the FRPP lacked distinct latitude and longitude coordinates. This aligns with a June 2026 Government Accountability Office assessment finding that 20 percent of building coordinates in the FRPP did not match their assigned zip codes. Furthermore, 7 percent of properties in the IOLP lacked distinct coordinates, while 20 percent contained outdated congressional representative data. The report also highlighted that GSA failed to maintain its mandatory geospatial data inventory for two years until prompted by the audit.
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