GSA hits one-year mark for OneGov
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Ross Wilkers
The General Services Administration's effort to centralize brand name technology purchases has brought in 20 companies as participants so far.
The General Services Administration is touting milestones for its OneGov initiative, which the agency unveiled roughly a year ago as its means to consolidate how federal government’s purchases of many commercial technology offerings.
Since OneGov’s launch in April 2025, GSA has entered into 20 unified agreements with major brand name suppliers of software and IT hardware in an effort to reduce the numbers of fragmented buys across government.
GSA is now touting $1.1 billion in savings through the first full year of OneGov, which was also stood up to put in place more standardized contract terms. This initiative is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to make GSA the government’s central clearinghouse for common goods and service purchasing, of which IT is included.
“Our contracting professionals freed other agencies to focus on their missions,” Laura Stanton, acting commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said in a release Thursday. “We saved taxpayer money, boosted AI adoption, protected IT infrastructure, and advanced modernization.”
A GSA spokesperson provided this statement to Washington Technology in response to questions about the savings figure:
“OneGov savings figures reflect estimated cost avoidance based on the difference between standard commercial pricing and the discounted pricing GSA has negotiated through OneGov agreements. Using transactional data from GSA’s best-in-class and Transactional Data Reporting systems, GSA matches actual purchases against a validated catalog of OneGov discounts and calculates savings as the gap between the commercial price list and the price paid, multiplied by quantity. These totals are then combined with vendor-reported savings where transactional data is not available to provide a more complete picture of governmentwide impact.”
In essence, the $1.1 billion savings figure appears to be based on current negotiated discounts and observed usage rates.
One prominent feature of OneGov agreements involves software discounts of up to 90% from providers like Microsoft, Adobe, Google, ServiceNow and others. A second feature centers around artificial intelligence and how agencies have sought to accelerate their adoptions of AI tools.
Some agencies have entered into pacts with AI providers at a cost of less than $1-per-agency as a way to support the White House’s AI Action Plan, which was released in July 2025.