Industry awaits significant disruption as GSA works on contract takeovers

No matter what your opinion is, government contractors and their agency counterparts should brace themselves for significant disruption as the General Services Administration moves to absorb nearly all responsibility for acquiring “common goods and services.”

As we reported on Wednesday, GSA is developing plans to take over the management of government-wide contract vehicles at NASA and the National Institutes of Health.

That plan is part of GSA’s effort to take on the buying of commercial IT products and services for all government. Sources said the consolidation efforts are initially focusing on civilian agencies and GSA is not looking at defense acquisitions yet.

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