Understanding the GSA. Understanding the GSA. The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops government-wide cost-minimizing policies, and other management tasks.[3] Understanding the GSA
GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers and has an annual operating budget of roughly $26.3 billion. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property, divided chiefly among 8,300 owned and leased buildings and a 210,000 vehicle motor pool. Among the real estate assets managed by the GSA are the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, the largest U.S. Federal building after The Pentagon and the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center which had previously been the Battle Creek Sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg.Understanding the GSA
https://www.sam.gov/portal/public/SAM/ Most of these websites are being merged into a new all in one web address called SAM. It is so new that some of it is not up and running yet. Understanding the GSA
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1 of SAM (CCR, FedReq,ORCA and EPLS are being done at this time. If the link is not complete yet, you still need to be registered with the Dun and Bradstreet, ccr.gov and ORCA. See the attached HOW to GET ON SCHEDULE for the web addresses.
2. Readiness Assessment. NEW Requires a digital certificate. (can be located on the link http://eoffer.gsa.gov ) The webaddress for the Readiness Assessment is https:/vsc.gsa.gov
It is under tab TOOLBOX Understanding the GSA
3. Pathway to Success REQUIRED to take the course (https://vsc.gsa.gov) and take the post test and keep the completed course certificate for upload in the final application called EOFFER.http://eoffer.gsa.gov
4. Choose a GSA schedule (the Readiness Assessment should have helped you with this process by comparing the NAICS codes (from ccr.gov registry) to correspond to the schedule of interest. (Yes, you can be on more than one schedule. www.gsaelibrary.gsa.gov houses all of the applications. The link is VENDORS CLICK HERE and it will take you to fbo.gov GSA houses the applications on fbo.gov as a
public offering. Understanding the GSA
5. Eoffer http://eoffer.gsa.gov This is the final step for submission of the application. It also requires a digital certificate. You would have already this digital certificate from this website to have taken the Readiness Assessment. All of the documents and certificates will be uploaded for submission to obtain the GSA number. Understanding the GSA
