The United States General Services Administration (GSA) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) mutually recognize the importance of providing high quality, efficient public buildings to leave a permanent and outstanding legacy of Federal architecture in communities across the Nation.

To this end, GSA and ASLA hereby adopt the following shared goals and objectives to:

• Promote design excellence in all aspects of the Federal building program, thereby providing American citizens with outstanding, cost effective public buildings that are good neighbors and enhance their communities.
• Partner with and educate ASLA members on GSA's Design Excellence Program.
• Work toward a GSA membership program in ASLA.
• Ensure a commitment to continuing communication between ASLA and GSA at all levels to further our mutual design objectives.
• Share industry and government best practices and new approaches to design.
• Promote use of state-of-the-art and cost effective design practices.
• Promote sustainable development and environmental protection in the conduct of our business.
• Promote uniform and efficient procurement and contract administration practices that use a qualifications-based contracting system to foster a fair, open, and competitive environment.
• Advance team building among the participants in public design and construction projects.
• Promote good faith and fair dealing as the foundation of relationships among the participants in public design and construction projects.

Agreed to this day
December 14, 2000