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The General Services Administration\u2019s push to centralize government buying is as much a return to its roots as it is a Trump administration initiative, according to one of the leading architects of the consolidation.<\/p>\n

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Laura Stanton, acting commissioner for GSA\u2019s Federal Acquisition Service, gave a bit of a history lesson during remarks at the\u00a0GovExec-produced\u00a0SAP NOW event on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. GSA started in 1949 as part of a series of\u00a0recommendations from the\u00a0Hoover Commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe reasons we were founded as agency are the same reasons and the priorities that I\u2019m going to talk about today,\u201d Stanton said. \u201cGoing back to those founding principles is really important to understanding where GSA is and what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

GSA wants to consolidate more government buying through its vehicles. There is plenty of room for that growth with GSA contracts accounting for about 25% total government buying. In 2025, $110 billion in order volume flowed through GSA vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a great baseline, but I also think that it\u2019s an indication that we still have a lot of decentralization across the government,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n

GSA has long had its Assisted Acquisition Services, but that organization concentrates on contracts and task orders exceeding $50 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are lot of common goods and services that everybody needs to deliver everyday that are far below that level,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n

To fill that niche, GSA created the Office of Centralized Acquisition Services. A lot of routine buying was happening agency-by-agency.<\/p>\n

Stanton said that agency-by-agency buying led to inconsistent pricing, duplicative\u00a0contracts for the same items and negotiations that left money on the table.<\/p>\n

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OCAS will step into the void and manage actual transactions, not just create master contracts. The theory is that by aggregating demand across agencies, GSA can negotiate better and drive consistency in pricing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis means we have to understand the demand for common goods and services across the agencies, so data becomes key,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

OCAS is already working with the Small Business Administration, Office of Personnel Management, other smaller agencies and a few larger ones on the acquisitions of common goods and services.<\/p>\n

The office is in a growth mode and Stanton recommended that industry get to know them through their quarterly pipeline reviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can hear directly about what\u2019s going on in that group and you can figure out how to align to the needs they are articulating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

OCAS will act as a shared services center actually executing transactions, not just as a contract vehicle shop.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more that we\u2019re able to bring into the centralized acquisition group, the more we can begin to work at scale and get those benefits for the federal government at the task order level, not just at the master contract level,\u201d Stanton said.<\/p>\n

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