The General Services Administration’s innovation lab, 18F, launched a new platform last week to more easily post and receive bids on micro-purchase tasks.

Micro-purchase authority allows agencies to directly buy products and services as long as they don’t exceed $3,500, and the agency used that authority in a new way in October 2015, when it essentially hosted a reverse auction to micro-purchase open source code for its CALC project.

18F declared the experience a success when it ended up buying open source code for just $1.

Now, 18F is further scaling that model, according to a Jan. 7, 2016 post to the 18F blog.

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