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Restoring Common Sense to Government Acquisition

This blog is part of a series highlighting our progress in 2025.

The second Trump Administration has made it clear that our government must work better, cost less, and deliver real value to the American people. GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, led by Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum, is embracing that charge. 

Teams across the FAS portfolios are hyperfocused on streamlining federal buying, operating as uncompromising fiduciaries of taxpayer dollars, and bringing common sense to federal procurement. Since January 20, 2025, GSA has driven more than $60 billion in contract savings across the federal government. And, inside GSA, we took decisive action to eliminate waste, canceling more than $500 million in unnecessary or underperforming contracts. This is what common-sense government looks like: cutting excess, enforcing accountability, and delivering measurable savings.

By consolidating demand and strengthening centralized procurement, GSA is now better positioned than ever to maximize value across the nearly $490 billion the federal government spends each year on goods and services. Under President Trump’s leadership, we’re proving that a leaner, more efficient federal government is not just possible, it’s happening.

Here are the key areas FAS is already delivering for taxpayers:

OneGov 

The total federal IT expenditure for Fiscal Year 2024, encompassing both software and hardware, surpassed $82 billion. This offered an unprecedented opportunity to buy as a unified government to achieve substantial cost savings.

Since launching the OneGov Strategy in April 2025, GSA has fundamentally transformed how the federal government procures and manages IT. We executed 17 agreements with leading technology companies, always prioritizing the taxpayer by negotiating the best contract terms instead of accepting pre-determined conditions.

The OneGov agreements have delivered discounts ranging up to 90% on widely used commercial software and services. Recent agreements include Adobe, Anthropic, AWS, Box, Cohesity, Docusign, Elastic, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, Perplexity, Slack, and ServiceNow — with more to come.

By securing standardized terms and pre-negotiated pricing, GSA’s OneGov agreements reduce acquisition complexity, improve efficiency and deliver savings for taxpayers.

Centralizing Procurement

The federal government spends approximately $490 billion each year on common goods and services, yet this spending has historically been fragmented and inefficient, with agencies often purchasing identical items at varying prices.

FAS’ mission is to simplify how the federal government acquires these common goods and services through a centralized, enterprisewide approach aligned with Executive Order 14240. 

In response to that E.O., GSA established the Office of Centralized Acquisition Services to provide acquisition assistance, reduce duplication, and allow agencies to focus on their core missions. 

Procurement consolidation will leverage tools such as Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts, shared services, demand management, and assisted acquisition to deliver better pricing and greater value for our customers.

Consolidating Fleet 

Consolidating fleet management under GSA enhances accountability and transparency,  and achieves performance-based results. In 2025, GSA successfully consolidated 1,123 vehicles into GSA’s centralized leased fleet. GSA also entered into three agency agreements aimed at achieving 100% conversion to GSA-leased vehicles, two of which have been fully completed. Crucially, GSA also supported the fleet expansion needs of U.S. Customs and Border Control and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. To prepare for anticipated large-scale consolidation workflows, GSA increased its process automation.

Rightsizing the Multiple Award Schedule Program

The Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program is a key tool for the federal government, providing streamlined access to over $52 billion in products and services annually. 

In 2025, GSA undertook a major initiative to improve the program’s effectiveness by allowing contracts that fail to meet sales thresholds to expire, addressing contractor non-compliance, reducing redundancies with other procurement channels and eliminating low-demand items that fail to deliver meaningful procurement benefits. As part of this effort, GSA eliminated approximately 1,600 unnecessary contracts in Fiscal Year 2025, resulting in an estimated annual cost savings of more than $24 million.

Sharing Travel Services

GSA’s latest travel modernization efforts, with the OneGov model paving the way, are building the future of government travel. In 2025, GSA prepared to launch GO.gov, a single travel management solution for all civilian federal agencies. It provides a more intuitive experience for booking federal travel and better access to commercially available features like charge card integration and a mobile interface.

In addition, GSA announced a rideshare partnership with Uber. Agencies have already reported over 50% savings compared to other ground transportation means, and more than 80% savings by replacing costly shuttle contracts with on-demand transportation.

Reporting Transactional Data 

In 2025, GSA expanded its Transactional Data Reporting, a move that increases transparency around what the government is buying and how much it’s paying for goods and services. The expansion began with 62 new product and cloud services Special Item Numbers at the end of June 2025. It will expand to all SINS (Special Item Numbers) beginning in FY26. SIN holders must participate in TDR .

TDR is how GSA gathers data on prices paid for products and services sold through the Multiple Award Schedule. It also removes the burden of traditional sales reporting and tracking practices while enhancing data capabilities to improve service and reduce costs to the government.

As uncompromising fiduciaries of taxpayer dollars, GSA has already achieved real, measurable results. But, the work is not finished. Our federal acquisition teams look forward to continuing to merge innovation with a new era of government products, services, and solutions while also supporting small businesses and expanding the federal supply chain with cybersecurity in mind.