Experts agree that the set of different strategies, such as disposal, facility management activities, maintenance activities and etc, represents pro-active public real estate management. And also, it appears that the reduction of costs of lease is a part of enhancement strategies for public properties, for this reason, it cannot be assessed separately from the others.
Considering all strategies that can be adopted for public properties in an integrated and systematic approach, the process of costs of lease reduction could allow: to reduce public spending, to use more efficiently the spaces underused, to concentrate maintenance tasks in fewer assets and to define with greater certainty the surplus property to be divested or transform.
The objective of this research is to verify and to assess technical and economic feasibility of public spkaces rationalization plan in Italian context by establishing a management model to support decision-making process on reduction costs of lease.
Determining the technical and economic feasibility of the public spaces rationalization could help: to implement a project in progress but not examined in depth, to assess available alternatives during program design phase and also - in case of negative result (not feasible plan) - to concentrate public resources (financial, technical, human) on other strategies that lead to better results, or again, it's an opportunity to improve weaknesses of rationalization plan.
A number of questions arise against this background:
- is the italian rationalization plan feasible?
- are reasonable the estimated saving by Agenzia del Demanio?
- is reasonable the time estimated by Agenzia del Demanio for the implementation of rationalization plan?
- Italian rationalization plan, is a long-term strategies or not?
- The potential benefits, are they calculated in short or long investment term?
- The potential benefits, how are they calculated?
- What are costs considered for the implementation of rationalization plan?
- What are the technical and economic difficulties?
- What is the decision-making process?
- What are decision criteria?
- How are alternatives compared?