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  • Need a specialty vehicle for your agency? GSA has you covered

    | GSA Blog Team
    By using the federal government’s purchasing power, GSA gets the best price for the technology, products and services that our agency partners need.
  • GSA helps states transform IT acquisition

    | GSA Blog Team
    When the state of Florida couldn’t find an IT solution for its agency that protects its fish and wildlife, they turned to the U.S. General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule and Cooperative Purchasing Program.
  • GSA at 75: A cost-efficient federal marketplace

    | GSA Blog Team
    GSA manages an online federal marketplace where 438 federal agencies can shop from companies that sell goods and services worth more than $100 billion each year.
  • Free GSA symposium answers contracting questions

    | GSA Blog Team
    Starting, building, and maintaining a business in today’s competitive climate takes hard work and perseverance. Many businesses consider partnering with the federal government, where support is plentiful. 
  • The Federal Acquisition Service training series you’ll want to attend

    | Bill Toth, CASE
    GSA’s annual, virtual series delivers training designed to meet the professional development needs of acquisition workforce professionals and offers Continuous Learning Points that such professionals seek to maintain their certification.
  • Boosting Native businesses, tribes through the federal marketplace

    | Julie Ramey, GSA's Tribal Liaison in the Office of the Administrator
    Most people haven’t heard that a Cherokee Nation company helped lead the evacuation of civilians out of Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal.
  • Federal agencies and industry can register now for virtual FAST2023 acquisition event

    | Bill Toth, Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
    Registration is now open for the three-day, virtual FAST2023 event May 16-18. GSA welcomes both federal agency and industry representatives to attend this year’s virtual event, focused on “building a…
  • Alliant 3 and OASIS+, Get the Right Services at the Right Time

    | By Laura Stanton, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Information Technology Category, and Tiffany Hixson, Assistant Commissioner, Office of Professional Services and Human Capital Categories
    GSA continues to advance its Services Marketplace by improving and expanding offerings supporting services acquisition. We are aligning around how we roll out new contracts, administer our current pro…
  • Building Better Requirements Together at FAST2022

    | Erv Koehler, Assistant Commissioner, GSA FAS Office of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement
    ‘Leading category management practitioners say that agencies could save billions of additional dollars if they focused more on how agencies define requirements,’ GAO-21-40. Challenge accepted! Here at…
  • GSA’s New & Improved Vendor Support Center Provides a Searchable, One-Stop-Shop for Contractors

    | Steve Sizemore, Deputy Director of the Multiple Award Schedule Program Management Office
    GSA recently launched a newly updated Vendor Support Center (VSC), a one-stop-shop for key resources for prospective and current Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contractors. This will improve the overal…