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March 20, 2018 By AMK

GSA wants e-commerce portal up and running by 2020

The General Services Administration on Friday released the final plans for building a governmentwide e-commerce portal that would make buying commercial products easier and faster for federal agencies.

In the proposal, GSA and the Office of Management and Budget detailed the timeline for rolling out the platform. The agencies also called on Congress to make a handful of legislative changes to open the door for online federal purchasing. Agencies would ultimately use the portals to buy products from pens and pencils to potentially more complex items, like mobile devices or other technologies.

“This opportunity to increase competition and improve transparency in the acquisition process can greatly reduce the burden the current processes place on both our acquisition workforce and industry partners,” GSA Administrator Emily Murphy said in a statement.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/03/gsa-wants-get-e-commerce-portal-and-running-2020/146742/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, e-commerce, e-procurement, GSA, procurement reform

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