Govt as source of e-scrap?

I was recently talking to someone who works for the federal government and when I mentioned that I e-scrap, he said something like "Oh, we have so much old computer hardware laying around". Has anyone who's a small scale e-scrapper ever succeeded in getting stuff from some government office? It seems to me that a lot of them, especially the Fed, can be sitting on piles of old computer equipment. On the other hand, I can imagine that the amount of red tape is probably exponentially proportional to the size of those piles. Is it even worth considering? Or too much of a hassle for a little guy like me taking apart towers in his basement?..

The government has it's own procedures for selling old stuff.

http://www.usa.gov/shopping/auctions/surplus.shtml

http://www.govsales.gov/HTML/INDEX.HTM

If you can get them cheap enough you can make a profit with no problems. If they are still useable you can resell them for a good profit. I work from home and can make some good money doing computers... just depends on how much time you want to put into it.