The General Services Administration is on a mission to change how federal agencies buy commercial products by establishing a commercial e-commerce portal that would simplify and streamline the government’s estimated $6 billion open market purchases.
The agency announced July 2 that it wants industry input on the proof of concept of that e-commerce portal, which would test for a larger scale offering by starting with just a few agency customers.
“The issuance of the draft solicitation is an important step forward for the commercial platforms initiative,” said Laura Stanton, GSA federal acquisition service deputy assistant commissioner for the office of information technology category and category management, in a news release.
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