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  • GSA SmartPay Earns Category Management Best-in-Class Designations

    | David Shea, Director, GSA Center for Charge Card Management
    Both GSA SmartPay 2 and the upcoming GSA SmartPay 3 government-wide charge card and related payment services contracts have been named “Best-in-Class” (BIC). ...
  • GSA and Dun & Bradstreet renegotiate contract to increase data availability and transparency

    | Kevin Youel Page, acting assistant commissioner, GSA’s Integrated Award Environment
    Since the 2014 implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), the nation’s first open data law, federal agencies have been busy focusing on ways to make data even more t...
  • Celebrating 10,000 Acquisition Gateway Users!

    | Tom Sharpe, Commissioner, Federal Acquisition Service
    Congratulations everyone – as of today,  GSA’s Acquisition Gateway is now 10,000 strong!  Thank you from all of us at the Federal Acquisition Service. We truly appreciate each person who has registere
  • Sign up for the Technology Industry Day

    | GSA Blog Team
    The General Services Administration (GSA) is known for managing federal real estate and leveraging the government’s buying power to get the best deal for taxpayers, but it also drives and leads techno...
  • Join GSA @ Camp Acquisition Gateway

    | Kelly Robinson, program analyst, Federal Acquisition Service, Office of Strategy Management
    Federal acquisition community – you are invited to join GSA at summer camp! As part of GSA’s ongoing effort to increase awareness and educate the acquisition community on digital tools and resources a
  • Enhancing our Nation’s Cybersecurity

    | Mary Davie, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS)
    The mission of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA)’s Integrated Technology Services (ITS) is to deliver best value technology solutions to the government and the American people, and one of the...
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    GSA’s ReverseAuctions platform celebrates 3rd anniversary by adding new features

    | Erv Koehler, FAS regional commissioner, GSA Region 4

    GSA was established on July 1, 1949. A lot has changed since then, but we’re still working to deliver the best value in real estate, acquisition, and technology services to government and the American people. A recent success story has been our innovative ReverseAuctions platform. In the three years since its release, GSA’s customers have saved more than $18.5 million or 17 percent by using reverse auctions. And it’s been a boon for small business, too: they’ve been awarded more than 92 percent of the procurements conducted through GSA’s ReverseAuctions platform to date.

  • Celebrating 67 Years of American Service

    | GSA Blog Team
    As the arm of procurement and real estate, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has always been a leader and innovator for the federal government, but our agency has evolved in many ways since inception on July 1, 1949. When he signed the...
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    Happy Birthday OASIS!

    | Karla Qawar, OASIS Communication and Program Specialist
    Today, GSA, our customers, and our industry partners have much to celebrate — two years ago, GSA awarded One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) and OASIS Small Business to provide federal agencies a flexible and innovative solution...
  • GSA ReverseAuctions Open Market Changes Mean Even More Savings To Customers And Taxpayers

    | Erv Koehler, FAS Regional Commissioner, GSA Region 4
    From day one, GSA ReverseAuctions has been a fantastic innovation for GSA’s customers. Now, a change means the government-run reverse auction tool is even more cost effective to federal, state and loc...