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• While the Department of Veterans Affairs has threatened to terminate its general contractor for a $300 million hospital in Orlando, Fla., a new report says that problems there and at some other projects are brought on by the VA itself.
• In Orlando, staff inexperience in ordering medical equipment caused change orders, the Government Accountability Office said, and it added that contractor in Orlando and for a project in New Orleans said the agency can take up to six months to respond to a changer order.
• GAO Director Lorelei St. James told a congressional committee that GAO found four VA building projects were over estimates by a total of $1.5 billion and were an average of three years behinds schedule.

From the article:

St. James told the House Committee on Veterans Affairs on May 7 that the VA's construction management practices need improvement. ...