Draft EO would make GSA the center of most common buys

EO can be found here: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement – The White House

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Within 60 days of the date of this order, agency heads shall, in consultation with the agency’s senior procurement officials, submit to the Administrator proposals, pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 101, 40 U.S.C. 501, or other relevant authorities, to have the General Services Administration conduct domestic procurement with respect to common goods and services for the agency, where permitted by law.

Emphasis added.

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The Federal Government spends approximately $490 billion per year on Federal contracts for common goods and services

The sorting out of what "common goods and services" are will be an interesting watch considering that the EO already contemplates what they are by this statement.  The billions mentioned by my read is approximately just over 50% of what is committed to contracts annually by the Federal government.  Noting that about $65 billion of somewhere around the $800 billion total  was via GSA MAS and VA FSS.

Interesting times to come.

The term “domestic” was also mentioned. I am curious to see how that is applied. What if a contract is awarded stateside but the performance is overseas (as State does for most of their larger contracts).

Vern Edwards said:

Emphasis added.

I think “common buys” fall into any of the 10 categories displayed in the article below:

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-policy/2025/03/draft-eo-would-make-gsa-the-center-of-most-common-buys/?readmore=1