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With Disaster Purchasing, eligible state and local governments can buy products and services from our Multiple Award Schedule, or establish blanket purchase agreements with MAS contractors when the purchases are for:
Look for the Disaster Purchasing icon in GSA Advantage and eLibrary.
We recommend you include this language on your Disaster Purchasing program orders:
This order is placed under GSA MAS number [insert number here] under the authority of the GSA Disaster Purchasing program. This order is to be used to facilitate disaster preparedness or response, recovery from a major disaster declared by the President under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), or recovery from terrorism, nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack.
Public Law No. 109-364 and Public Law No. 111-263 allow non-federal buyers to use MAS.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security mandates that all of the products and services in our MAS program be available under the Disaster Purchasing program. Purchases are limited to MAS contracts and authorized BPAs.
Local officials are responsible for ensuring purchases are being used to support disaster preparation or recovery.
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Read the terms and conditions, ordering procedures, and order acceptance details for our state and local purchasing programs.
Use our Customer Marketing Library Service to download a PDF version of our Disaster Purchasing program slip sheet. You have to complete registration details before you can view and download it.
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Rates for Alaska, Hawaii, and U.S. territories and possessions are set by the Department of Defense.
Rates for foreign countries are set by the Department of State.
Rates are available between 10/1/2023 and 09/30/2026.
The End Date of your trip can not occur before the Start Date.
Traveler reimbursement is based on the location of the work activities and not the accommodations, unless lodging is not available at the work activity, then the agency may authorize the rate where lodging is obtained.
Unless otherwise specified, the per diem locality is defined as "all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city, including independent entities located within those boundaries."
Per diem localities with county definitions shall include"all locations within, or entirely surrounded by, the corporate limits of the key city as well as the boundaries of the listed counties, including independent entities located within the boundaries of the key city and the listed counties (unless otherwise listed separately)."
When a military installation or Government - related facility(whether or not specifically named) is located partially within more than one city or county boundary, the applicable per diem rate for the entire installation or facility is the higher of the rates which apply to the cities and / or counties, even though part(s) of such activities may be located outside the defined per diem locality.
U.S. General Services Administration