United States General Services Administration
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| Formed | July 1, 1949 |
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General Services Administration Building 1800 F Street NW Washington, D.C. |
| Employees | 11,502 (FY 2014) |
| Annual budget | $20.9 billion |
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| Website | www |
The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, was established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies and other management tasks.
GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $26.3 billion. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property, divided chiefly among 8,300 owned and leased buildings and a 210,000 vehicle motor pool. Among the real estate assets managed by the GSA are the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. – the largest U.S. federal building after the Pentagon – and the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center (which had previously been the Battle Creek Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg).
GSA's business lines include the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), the Public Buildings Service (PBS), and the Technology Transformation Service (TTS), as well as several Staff Offices including the Office of Governmentwide Policy, the Office of Small Business Utilization, and the Office of Mission Assurance. TTS's Office of Products and Programs is responsible for five portfolios designed to help federal agencies improve delivery of information and services to the public. Key initiatives include FedRAMP, Cloud.gov, the USAGov platform (e.g., USA.gov, GobiernoUSA.gov, and Kids.gov), Data.gov, Performance.gov, and Challenge.gov.
GSA is member of the Procurement G6, an informal group leading the use of framework agreements and e-procurement instruments in public procurement.
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