The ISI's have been identified to create and foster an information sharing environment in the Federal community that will encourage more collaborative decision making, which will lead to cost effective and timely solutions to agencies' real property, operational, and programmatic needs. The FLP's were developed, as a result of locational factors identified during agency site visits and interviews, to serve as a guide through which better-informed decisions may be made regarding real property asset management. Another FLP is agency collocation, in other words, agencies with like missions should consider the benefits of collocation. The Bureau of Prisons has established a nationwide clearinghouse for reuse of equipment, such as kitchen fixtures or HVAC machinery. An agency that is replacing equipment may offer the old equipment to all the other facilities.
Prisoners refurbish the equipment for use in another facility.
The clearinghouse functions as a stopgap method in light of scarce funds. The Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation has been able to avoid stockpiling older, excess computers and other personal property items by donating and transferring them to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Department of Interior's Bureau of Reclamation in Santa Fe has been able to donate its excess computers to the local school systems. This reduces the storage problems we have seen at other agencies that have not been able to streamline the process of disposing their excess personal property. Space Use F1.