GSA Procurement: Limited Opportunities To Supply More Common-Use Items to Civil Agencies

In response to a congressional request, GAO: (1) studied the purchasing practices of civil agencies to determine whether they are buying items on the open market that they could obtain from the General Services Administration (GSA); and (2) examined GSA actions to respond to the President's Private Sector Study on Cost Control (PPSSCC) recommendation that civil agencies could save an estimated $242 million annually by making greater use of GSA centralized procurement of common-use items.