Federal IT Purchasing

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In a separate post, we discuss how President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14240 (Mar. 20, 2025) will affect federal purchasing of information technology.

EO 14240 may also change how the federal government buys billions of dollars in other “common goods and services”, a phrase that include nearly everything the Government buys from private industry. The Order defines “common goods and services” as the “common Government-wide categories defined by the “Category Management Leadership Council led by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).” It includes construction, technical and engineering services, logistics, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals.

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President Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14240 (Mar. 20, 2025) provides for the General Services Administration (GSA) Administrator to assume responsibility for all Government-wide contracts for the acquisition of information technology and to develop a plan to consolidate purchasing of many other goods and services within GSA.

In this post, we discuss the impacts of EO 14240 on federal IT purchasing. We look at how EO 14240 will affect purchasing of common goods and services in a separate post.