Industry benefits of procurement centralization
The Office of Centralized Acquisition Services, or OCAS, has been established to centralize procurement, streamline processes, and deliver value governmentwide. We provide a centralized buying channel for industry to sell commercial, domestic, common goods and services, reducing administrative burden, improving transparency and communication, and increasing forecast predictability.
Predictable forecasts
- Eliminates need to understand and manage to agency-specific contracting practices
- Provides centralized market intelligence on buyers, pricing, and purchasing timelines
- Streamlines contract management with standardized processes and terms
- Ensures consistent pricing expectations and a more efficient federal sales environment
Transparency and communication
- Streamlined access to reach all participating federal agencies through us
- Collaborate with our agency’s category specialists to develop future-focused, best-in-class solutions
- Refine offerings and pricing using insights on government-wide trends, policies, and spending patterns
- Engage in one dialogue with the entire federal enterprise to influence acquisition strategies, pricing practices, and policies that impact your business
Simplified, standard processes
- Clear, uniform guidance and compliance expectations from a single, authoritative source
- Reduce account management and delivery expenses through streamlined processes and centralized oversight
- Standardized platforms that simplify selling and contract administration
- Minimized barriers to entry make it easier for innovative and emerging vendors to compete and grow
How to partner with us
There are a number of things you can do to prepare and understand activities and impacts of the centralization efforts outlined below. We will also post relevant updates to our Interact page, so please follow along.
What you can do
- Analyze and categorize your offerings
Review your current portfolio of goods and services. Identify which of your offerings fall under “common goods and services,” which may transfer to our agency. - Prepare for contract transitions
We will provide a standard set of contracting practices across agencies and are assuming active contracts from partner agencies. Contractors will continue to work with their day-to-day contracting officer’s representative, but you will see a change in contracting officer and administrative modifications to name GSA as the agency of record. - Showcase capabilities
You should continue to engage directly with agencies to showcase capabilities and solutions, while leveraging us for contracting of common goods and services. - Partner with OCAS
You can actively partner with us by taking opportunities to give us feedback; identify agencies that could use us help; and work with our agency to ensure solutions, terms and conditions and prices are aligned with expectations and industry needs.
What we will do
- Contracting pipeline
Look out for an information session and our first pipeline review in fiscal year 2026 Quarter 3. - We provide support across all 10 common government wide categories
Other offices in our agency may handle contracts upon fit determination. - How to bid on work
We plan to utilize eBuy and SAM.gov to post solicitations. - Questions on specific offerings?
Queries can be directed to the assigned CO in the specific solicitation. - FAR overhaul updates
Keep up-to-date on the latest FAR updates at Acquisition.gov.
For general feedback and questions, please contact IndustryGSAOCAS@gsa.gov.