The General Services Administration (GSA) announced a new online tool to help make the government procurement process easier for Federal employees.
Developed by GSA in partnership with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Procurement Co-Pilot aims to improve agency access to reliable governmentwide buying data and help eliminate duplicative data, tools, and effort.
The Procurement Co-Pilot is focused on helping acquisition professionals easily see what agencies across government have paid along with other procurement data using data powered by Hi-Def, OMB’s new acquisition data management strategy.
Through the tool, public servants will be able to:
- Review prices paid information on products purchased by agencies;
- Find vendors across all categories and sizes that work with the government; and
- Find the best contract that fits the needs of their agency’s mission.
“The Procurement Co-Pilot increases visibility into the data provided by our partners, which helps federal agencies make better decisions about how they spend taxpayer money,” Charlotte Phelan, assistant commissioner at GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service Office of Strategy and Innovation, wrote in a June 12 blog post.
“A significant data source for the Procurement Co-Pilot is GSA’s Transactional Data Reporting Program, which collects data about prices paid from thousands of Multiple Award Schedule contracts,” Phelan added.
GSA’s new Procurement Co-Pilot bolsters the White House Better Contracting Initiative that was announced in November 2023.
