The General Services Administration (GSA) has updated its request for proposals (RFPs) for its Polaris small business-focused governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) vehicle, and is looking for industry feedback on the changes before reopening the RFPs. […]
The General Service Administration’s (GSA) Artificial Intelligence Center of Excellence (AI CoE) has launched an Applied AI Challenge that seeks to bring forth industry solutions for AI technologies, the AI CoE announced. The challenge aims to find solutions to aid citizen service delivery in areas of natural language processing engines, unified platforms, computer vision engines, and general AI functions. […]
As the Biden administration strives to inject sustainability policies into government buying practices, the General Services Administration (GSA) is establishing a new Federal advisory committee to look at issues of climate and sustainability in Federal procurement. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has launched a new Federal acquisition tool, Buy.GSA.gov, to work to centralize the Federal acquisition experience, GSA announced on April 26. GSA said the tool’s key features include the ability to simplify market research, searchable templates and sample documents, and an interactive acquisition package checklist. “This buyer experience tool was built […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has launched a new acquisition advisory committee for addressing the climate crisis and increasing sustainability across the Federal government. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) today explained a range of steps the agency is taking to advance equity and supplier diversity in Federal government procurement, including category management changes and commitments to help reduce contracting obstacles for small disadvantaged businesses (SDBs). […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released its Equity Action Plan, which is meant to increase equity in Federal procurement, Federal buildings, and Federal technology design and delivery. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) this week previewed its upcoming Federal Marketplace (FMP) Spring 2022 release, which the agency said will improve the digital experience of all suppliers, buyers, and members of the acquisition workforce. […]
Kevin Kampschroer, chief sustainability officer and director of the Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings at the General Services Administration (GSA), cited the ambitious clean-energy targets of big tech-sector companies as encouragement that the Federal government can meet White House clean-energy goals, including through more efficient data center usage. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is realigning members of its senior executive service ranks later this month under FAS Commissioner Sonny Hashmi, an agency spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The Federal government’s six integrated awards environments (IAEs) successfully renumbered their systems from using the Data Universal Numbering System for all entities looking to work with the Federal government needing a unique entity identifier (UEI), a General Services Administration (GSA) spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The General Services Administration’s five-year strategic plan published on March 31 weaves the developing issues of telework, cybersecurity, IT-driven citizen service improvements, and adoption of further acquisition technologies throughout much of the agency’s wide-ranging work plans for fiscal years 2022 through 2026. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said today that joint work with the Air Force’s Kessel Run software organization on GSA’s cloud.gov platform has enabled the platform to host 100 million digital users per hour. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is offering agencies access to new and improved tools to accelerate the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) implementation, especially as agencies fall behind and the new deadline approaches. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has issued solicitations for its new Polaris small business-focused governmentwide acquisition contract (GWAC) vehicle, which aims to build equity in Federal procurement. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that it boosted its Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 goal for small disadvantaged business (SDB) contracting to 21 percent, more than a four-fold increase from the government-wide statutory goal of five percent in FY2021. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) today announced the launch of its brand-new Federal IT Dashboard, replacing a legacy dashboard system created in 2009 that relied on older technology, became expensive to maintain, and exhibited performance problems. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) on April 4 will switch to using new Unique Entity ID (SAM) as the authoritative government entity identifier in its SAM.gov and other systems. This means SAM.gov and other GSA systems will no longer use the DUNS number for identifying entities. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed Rebeca Lamadrid to serve as director for Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), a fellowship program that enables technologists and innovators to serve one-year stints at Federal agencies. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is working with the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Office of the Federal CIO to finalize the launch date of its modernized Federal IT Dashboard, which is now being targeted for a mid-March debut. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has named its 2022 cohort of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), who will serve one-year stints at 14 Federal agencies to support the Biden-Harris administration’s focus on empowering the Federal workforce and delivering an effective and efficient government. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has committed to increasing the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2022, which ends Sept. 30., according to a press release. […]
The General Services Administration is extending the deadline – by one year – for Federal agencies to transition off of their Networx telecommunications contracts by implementing a continuation of services (CoS) clause, a GSA spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk today. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded the second cohort of the 8(a) STARS III Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) to streamline procurement from prime contractors. […]
The Department of Defense (DoD) and the General Services Administration (GSA) today issued a request for information to learn more about capabilities necessary to achieve the goal of President Biden’s executive order issued last December to cut carbon emissions across government and reach the goal of using 100 percent carbon pollution-free electricity by 2030. […]
The Biden-Harris administration released a vision statement for the President’s Management Agenda (PMA) in November, and has since released a draft learning agenda that will inform further development of the PMA. But what’s next for the PMA and when can agencies expect implementation efforts to begin? […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) issued an updated request for information (RFI) this week that aims to help Federal government senior executives improve workforce policies and initiatives. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released new details about several upcoming multiple-award blanket purchase agreements (BPA) to help speed up enterprise-wide modernization initiatives and meet increased demand for secure commercial cloud products and services. […]
The leader of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Integrated Award Environment, which oversees government-wide Federal award systems such as SAM.gov, will be heading to the private sector in the new year. […]
The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) U.S. Digital Service (USDS) and the General Services Administration’s (GSA) 18F program must coordinate more consistently on developing agency guidance to eliminate overlap or duplication of guidance or conflicting guidance, according to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]