With the transition to a Trump administration well under way, the General Services Administration (GSA) is moving to further institutionalize the Obama administration’s push to make agencies more efficient and effective stewards of taxpayer dollars by sharing more back-end administrative services and adopting category management as a procurement model.
On Wednesday of last week, the agency announced an “innovative new vision for administrative mission support services that eliminates redundancy, reduces risk, and leverages government’s buying power to deliver administrative services that create a more effective government.”
GSA’s office of Unified Shared Services Management, working with the Shared Service Governance Board created with the Office of Management and Budget in October 2015, is crafting a “10-year vision” for shared services, although funding for the interagency initiative has been dicey.
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