The General Services Administration has reassigned the official in charge of developing a new FBI headquarters in the middle of its search for a private-sector partner to build the new complex.
GSA project executive William Dowd had overseen the project since 2013. In January, the agency launched a final search for a developer willing to build the new headquarters in exchange for the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington and as much as $1.8 billion in cash. Responses are due June 22.
Dowd, who remains with the agency, declined to comment. A GSA spokesman declined to explain the reason for the transfer but said Dowd had been appointed to a three-year stint managing the project that was set to expire next month. Project executive Aaron D. Hassinger is now overseeing it.
Dowd’s transfer comes as the GSA — with less than nine months remaining under President Obama — is in the midst of advancing a complex series of real estate transactions to afford a new 2.1 million-square-foot secure campus for the FBI in Greenbelt, Md., Landover, Md., or Springfield, Va.
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