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    Focusing on Healthy and Productive Industry Relationships - Communication Is Key

    | Jeff Koses, GSA’s Senior Procurement Executive Office of Government-wide Policy

    Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of blogs about how GSA is fostering healthy and productive industry relationships. Be sure to read the second post.

    “Can we talk?” Such a simple question, yet one that causes so much confusion in the acquisition world. At GSA, our answer is simple: “Yes, we’d love to talk.”

  • Extending Current Telecommunications Contracts To Allow For Successful EIS Transition

    | Alan Thomas, FAS Commissioner
    In July 2017, GSA awarded the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, a game-changing information technology (IT) contract that will improve how the federal government modernizes legacy IT…
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    GSA Strengthens Partnership with Marine Corps through new Performance-Based Agreement

    | GSA Blog Team
    Caption (Feature Photo): Lieutenant General Charles Chiarotti of the U.S.Marine Corps and Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Alan Thomas celebrate the signing of a Performance-Based Agreement be…
  • GSA Launches a new Pilot Program and Resource Center for Acquiring Innovative Commercial Items

    | Chris Hamm, Director, FEDSIM
    Editor’s Note: This is the third in a three-part series about acquisition innovation at GSA. Visit the first blog and second blog in the series.Earlier this year, Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Com…
  • Igniting Small Business Innovation, Commercialization and Growth

    | Mark J. Lee, Assistant Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service, Office of Policy and Compliance
    Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series about acquisition innovation at GSA. Visit the first and third blog in the series.GSA is always looking for new and innovative ways to better s…
  • Strengthening Capacity to Accelerate IT Modernization

    | Joanne Collins Smee, FAS Deputy Commissioner and TTS Director
    On June 28, I was honored to kick off the first-ever governmentwide Cloud Reverse Industry Training (RIT). RITs help the federal acquisition community learn about the challenges that industry faces th…
  • 2018 -- The Year of Acquisition Policy Innovation

    | Jeffrey A. Koses, Senior Procurement Executive, GSA
    Editor’s Note: This is the first in a three-part series about acquisition innovation at GSA. Visit the second and third blog in the series.So far, 2018 is sizing up to be a year of acquisition policy…
  • Implementation of Order-Level Materials Improves the Schedules Program

    | Mark Lee, Assistant Commissioner, GSA FAS Office of Policy and Compliance
    GSA is pleased to announce one of the biggest improvements to its Schedules Program since its creation: the Order-Level Materials (OLM) initiative is now live. GSA announced the final General Services…
  • My Vision for Federal Acquisition

    | Alan Thomas, FAS Commissioner
    It’s hard to believe we’re already over halfway through fiscal year 2018, and I’m approaching my one-year anniversary mark as Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner. Time always flies when you…