Federal Register, Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement, Executive Order 14240, March 20, 2025
Aims to reinvigorate the General Services Administration (GSA) as a tool for promoting effiency. Empowers the GSA Administrator to oversee government acquisition contracts for IT, and to prepare a plan for consolidating the domestic procurement of "common goods and services" based on proposals from agency heads.
From the Order:
Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government spends approximately $490 billion per year on Federal contracts for common goods and services—the types of goods and services purchased by nearly every executive department and agency (agencies)—making it the largest buyer of goods and services in the world. As a matter of sound management, these standardized procurement functions should be carried out in the most efficient and effective manner possible for the American taxpayer.
The General Services Administration was established in 1949 through the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 et seq., to provide “an economical and efficient system” for the core procurement services for agencies (40 U.S.C. 101). It is time to return the General Services Administration to its original purpose, rather than continuing to have multiple agencies and agency subcomponents separately carry out these same functions in an uncoordinated and less economical fashion.
Consolidating domestic Federal procurement in the General Services Administration—the agency designed to conduct procurement—will eliminate waste and duplication, while enabling agencies to focus on their core mission of delivering the best possible services for the American people.