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    Federal Regulatory Information is now at your fingertips! Introducing the RegInfo.gov Mobile App

    | GSA Blog Team
    GSA is proud to be at the forefront when it comes to Making It Easier to engage with government. One of our latest initiatives is the first-ever mobile app for RegInfo.gov,  a tool that increases the
  • A look back at the last eight years

    | Denise Turner Roth, GSA Administrator
    The U.S. General Services Administration has always had the privilege of delivering better value and savings to the American people. Although the initiatives we pursue may change over time, our commit
  • Near… FAR… Wherever you are….

    | Jeff Koses, Senior Procurement Executive, Office of Government-wide Policy
    The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) made history today by releasing the first ever iBook version of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). And while a tome about the complex rules governing the federal government’s purchasing process may…
  • Celebrating 10,000 Acquisition Gateway Users!

    | Tom Sharpe, FAS Commissioner
    Congratulations everyone – as of today,  GSA’s Acquisition Gateway is now 10,000 strong!  Thank you from all of us at the Federal Acquisition Service. We truly appreciate each person who has registered and helped the site grow so quickly. But we’re not…
  • Transactional Data is Here: GSA Publishes Rule to Capture Data, Drive Taxpayer Savings & Reduce Burdens on Industry

    | The GSA Blog Team
    I’ve written before that FAS, along with our industry stakeholders, has taken on the monumental task of transforming GSA’s very successful Multiple Award Schedules (MAS) program to ensure that it cont…
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    GSA Making it Easier for Suppliers to Do Business with the Government

    | Denise Turner Roth, GSA Administrator

    Today I am launching a series of new GSA programs collectively called the “Making It Easier” initiative – and I’m pleased to tell you that this is a great example of a name that exactly fits a program.

  • MRO and JanSan Category Management Solutions Named Best-in-Class Vehicles

    | Mary Ruwee, FAS Regional Commissioner, Heartland Region and George Prochaska, FAS Regional Commissioner, Greater Southwest Region

    The GSA Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) and Janitorial and Sanitation (JanSan) category management contracts have been named “Best-in-Class” (BIC) vehicles. These solutions are part of the Industrial Products and Services as well as Facilities and Construction category solution set.

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    Continuing to Make it Easier for Industry to Do Business with the Government

    | Kevin Youel Page, Deputy Commissioner, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service

    Hello, and welcome to my first blog of FY17. A new year always comes with new opportunities, and at GSA, we’re continuing our mission to embrace one of the biggest: overcoming the conception that working with government is just “too hard.”

    Throughout 2016, leadership across the agency was on a mission to make GSA more efficient, innovative, and effective. The April launch of our groundbreaking new Making It Easier (MIE) initiative proved to be a big step toward fulfilling those goals.

  • GSA SmartPay Earns Category Management Best-in-Class Designations

    | David Shea, Director, GSA Center for Charge Card Management
    Both GSA SmartPay 2 and the upcoming GSA SmartPay 3 government-wide charge card and related payment services contracts have been named “Best-in-Class” (BIC). …
  • GSA and Dun & Bradstreet renegotiate contract to increase data availability and transparency

    | Kevin Youel Page, acting assistant commissioner, GSA’s Integrated Award Environment
    Since the 2014 implementation of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act), the nation’s first open data law, federal agencies have been busy focusing on ways to make data even more t…