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Real Property Management Services

Program code
ISS08 (GSC)
Core responsibility
Internal Services
In Departmental Plans
2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Real property management services involve activities undertaken to ensure that real property (e.g., land, bridges, and buildings) is managed in a sustainable and financially responsible manner throughout its life cycle to support the cost-effective and efficient delivery of government programs. Most federal real property services are captured under specific program expenditures. As an Internal Services category, real property management services are limited to those expenditures associated with office accommodations that are not funded by Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), as well as to expenditures for real property services. Also included in this category are the expenditures of any FTEs that provide real property policy advice to real property practitioners throughout the department.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

2018-192019-202020-212021-222022-232023-242024-252025-262026-272027-282028-29Real Property Management Services 2018-19: $12.8MReal Property Management Services 2019-20: $15.9MReal Property Management Services 2020-21: $19.5MReal Property Management Services 2021-22: $16.2MReal Property Management Services 2022-23: $18.5MReal Property Management Services 2023-24: $15.8MReal Property Management Services 2024-25: $17.5MReal Property Management Services 2025-26: $13.4MReal Property Management Services 2026-27: $13.1MReal Property Management Services 2027-28: $7.2MReal Property Management Services 2028-29: $7.2MReal Property Management ServicesReal Property…Real Property Management Services
Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data. The line at the bottom shows this program's names over time.
ProgramRelationYears with dataActual spending over those years
Real Property Management ServicesThis program2018-19 – 2028-29$116M

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

YearWhat changedSource
2019-20Renamed from “Real Property Management Services - Department of Public Works and Government Services” to “Real Property Management Services”.GC InfoBase program names by year
2023-24Employees (FTEs) 139, against 105 in 2022-23 (+32%).FTEs (GC InfoBase)
2027-28Planned spending $7.2M, against $13.1M in 2026-27 (−45%).Latest Departmental Plan

Success criteria

Neither this program nor its core responsibility has results indicators in GC InfoBase (internal services, for example, have none).

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

2018-19: $3.8M2018-19: $12.8M2018-192019-20: $3.9M2019-20: $15.9M2019-202020-21: $3.9M2020-21: $19.5M2020-212021-22: $44.9M2021-22: $16.2M2021-222022-23: $10.4M2022-23: $18.5M2022-232023-24: $6.4M2023-24: $15.8M2023-242024-25: $7.2M2024-25: $17.5M2024-252025-26: $13.4M2025-262026-27: $13.1M2026-272027-28: $7.2M2027-282028-29: $7.2M2028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-19$3.8M$12.8M
2019-20$3.9M$15.9M
2020-21$3.9M$19.5M
2021-22$44.9M$16.2M
2022-23$10.4M$18.5M
2023-24$6.4M$15.8M
2024-25$7.2M$17.5M
2025-26$13.4M—
2026-27$13.1M—
2027-28$7.2M*—
2028-29$7.2M*—

Employees (FTEs)

2018-19: 722018-19: 842018-192019-20: 772019-20: 1022019-202020-21: 1012020-21: 1012020-212021-22: 1072021-22: 1002021-222022-23: 982022-23: 1052022-232023-24: 1242023-24: 1392023-242024-25: 1362024-25: 1512024-252025-26: 1582025-262026-27: 1402026-272027-28: 1412027-282028-29: 1392028-29
Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.
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Fiscal yearPlannedActual
2018-197284
2019-2077102
2020-21101101
2021-22107100
2022-2398105
2023-24124139
2024-25136151
2025-26158—
2026-27140—
2027-28141*—
2028-29139*—

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.