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The United State’s Open Government Directive instructs all federal agencies to actively open their operations to the public. GSA’s efforts are rooted in three principles at the heart of the directive: Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration.
Featured Initiatives
challenge.gov
Challenge.gov is a government-wide challenge platform that facilitates innovation through challenges and prizes and enables the public to find all federal government challenge opportunities in one place, to learn about them in easy, creative ways, and to be notified of new challenges.
data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data, which increases public access to high-value government datasets, providing data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, and design data visualizations.
GSA Interact
An open, collaborative online community for connecting, communicating, learning and engaging across GSA topics. Its goal is to help increase government’s effectiveness through better communication and collaboration.
Procurement Innovation Tools
A set of online tools to make it easy for businesses and individuals to find and participate in Federal business opportunities, developed as a GSA Open Government Flagship Initiative.
Negotiated Terms of Service Agreements
GSA led a team to negotiate landmark agreements with many social media companies on behalf of all federal agencies.
Visit this page to learn about GSA’s ongoing accountability to citizens, its ambitious sustainability plans, and what “open” looks like across the globe.
Reports to Citizens
These reports provide GSA financial and performance information, enabling the assessment of agency performance, and explain how the agency benefits citizens.
Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan [PDF - 6 MB]
Sustainability is one of GSA’s key priorities. GSA incorporates sustainability into its budget, planning, and performance management processes and understands that sustainability can significantly improve our bottom line. Several of GSA’s key performance measures are sustainability measures, and GSA tracks goal progress.
GSA Events
A listing of dates and locations for GSA sponsored seminars, workshops, meetings, and other events offered to federal employees and vendors.
Blog Highlights
View blog highlights of GSA's Open Government activities furthering Transparency, Participation, Collaboration and Innovation.
Budget Justifications: Reports and documents provide budgetary and performance information about GSA's programs.
Budget and Performance: These reports gather information on GSA's progress regarding budget, performance, and goals.
Conference Expense Report: This report provides conference expense information for GSA conferences, as required by OMB Memorandum M-12-12.
Congressional Affairs: GSA provides timely, accurate information to all inquiries from Congress.
Ethics Report: The results of a U.S. Office of Government Ethics review indicated that the GSA ethics program appears to be effectively administered and in compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
Office of the Inspector General Reports: GSA's Inspector General issues semiannual reports on significant investigations, statistical case information and information concerning management decisions.
GSA OIG Contractor Reporting OIG Documents & Reports
Privacy Policy: GSA's Privacy Program protects the personal information of all individuals of whom GSA maintains systems of records.
Records Management: GSA carefully tracks, organizes, and archives valuable historical data.
Version 3.0 of GSA's Open Government Plan showcases our ongoing implementation of collaborative governmentwide platforms and tools and our current strategic initiatives in the U.S. National Action Plan. This version details some of GSA’s ongoing work to make federal procurement information easily accessible online for businesses, government agencies, and the public. Download the GSA Open Government Plan Version 3 [PDF - 403 KB].
We recognize that our Open Government Plan is a living document and will evolve. As we continue towards increased transparency, participation, collaboration, and innovation, we will include updates of how these open government principles are integrated in our strategic efforts and mission operations. Details about achievements in these areas can be found on our website, GSA.gov and GSA.gov/open. We invite the public to contribute ideas on ways GSA can become more accountable and accessible. The feedback we receive from the public today will help to shape a more open GSA for tomorrow. Please email us at Open.Government@gsa.gov to let us know:
What data or information do you want GSA to make available to the public?
What additional open government activities would you like to see GSA involved in?
What would you like us to include in our updated open government plan?
How you would like our GSA.gov/open webpage to evolve?
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U.S. General Services Administration
data.gov
Digital Services
GSA Interact
Procurement Innovation Tools
Negotiated Terms of Service Agreements
Open Government Directive
usaspending.gov
usa.gov
itdashboard.gov
regulations.gov
Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS)
Reports to Citizens
Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan