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Contractors and interested members of the public may now use the online Acquisition Gateway to view a slice of agency procurement data, the General Services Administration has announced.

The new tool advances the Obama Administration’s push, launched in December 2014, to remove procurement duplication across government through category management.

Agencies are encouraged to “act as one” and use the Acquisition Gateway to find side-by-side comparisons of different agency solutions for common procurement challenges such as cloud computing and logistics. The idea is to let agency purchasers connect with like-minded professionals and explore the 10 “hallways” of products and services.

The gateway offers category-related articles produced by federal employees, templates, market-research tools, and prices-paid data organized along the steps of the acquisition life cycle. Opening it to the public was done in the “spirit of data transparency,” GSA said.

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The General Services Administration’s recently launched governmentwide acquisition hub not only better organizes goods and services around categories, it is leading to a better organized government acquisition workforce, said GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth.

Acquisition Gateway GSA — Click on the icon above to connect to GSA’s Acquisition Gateway.

GSA’s Acquisition Gateway provides a central location for the government’s 61,000 procurement professionals to learn, connect and act upon acquisition information, said Roth during a discussion at the ACT-IAC Executive Leadership Conference Oct. 27.

The platform and use of category management has elicited “an immediate response” from the contracting community and encouraged GSA to reorganize its workforce in a way that takes advantage of strong expertise in specific categories, said Roth.

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New acquisition tool allows agencies to comparison shop

Contractors and interested members of the public may now use the online Acquisition Gateway to view a slice of agency procurement data, the General Services Administration has announced.

GSA platform will ‘cut through the noise,’ empower contracting officers

The General Services Administration’s recently launched governmentwide acquisition hub not only better organizes goods and services around categories, it is leading to a better organized government acquisition workforce, said GSA Administrator Denise Turner Roth.

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