{"id":9511,"date":"2019-10-18T19:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/18\/how-gsa-plans-to-capture-6b-in-under-the-radar-spending\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:31:12","slug":"how-gsa-plans-to-capture-6b-in-under-the-radar-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/acquisition\/2019\/10\/18\/how-gsa-plans-to-capture-6b-in-under-the-radar-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"How GSA plans to capture $6B in under-the-radar spending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Each year, federal agencies spend billions of dollars collectively making purchases using their federal government purchase cards or other micro-purchase methods, which receive little notice on a governmentwide scale when compared with higher-value contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The General Services Administration is currently looking for a way to change that, by offering an e-marketplace platform that not only allows agencies to more easily search for and make those smaller-cost purchases, but also gives GSA and user agencies better data about how their spending stacks up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the beginning of October, GSA released its request for proposals<\/a> for a proof-of-concept of the program, which will kick off a three-year maximum test to see whether a government-organized e-marketplace is more valuable than agencies simply making these purchases on their own, as they do now.<\/p>\n\n\n\t