GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA) - Regulatory Plan - October 2018

GSA oversees the business of the Federal Government. GSA's acquisition solutions supply Federal purchasers with cost-effective, high-quality products, and services from commercial vendors. GSA provides workplaces for Federal employees and oversees the preservation of historic Federal properties. GSA helps keep the nation safe and efficient by providing tools, equipment, and non-tactical vehicles to the U.S. military, and providing state and local governments with law enforcement equipment, firefighting and rescue equipment, and disaster recovery products and services.

GSA serves the public by delivering products and services directly to its Federal customers through the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), the Public Buildings Service (PBS), and the Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP). GSA has a continuing commitment to its Federal customers and the U.S. taxpayers by providing those products and services in the most cost-effective manner possible.

Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)

FAS is the lead organization for procurement of products and services (other than real property) for the Federal Government. The FAS organization leverages the buying power of the Government by consolidating Federal agencies' requirements for common goods and services. FAS provides a range of high-quality and flexible acquisition services to increase overall Government effectiveness and efficiency by aligning resources around key functions.

Public Buildings Service (PBS)

PBS is the largest public real estate organization in the United States. As the landlord for the civilian Federal Government, PBS acquires space on behalf of the Federal Government through new construction and leasing, and acts as a manager for Federal properties across the country. PBS is responsible for over 370 million rentable square feet of workspace for Federal employees, owns 1,600 plus assets totaling over 180 million rentable square feet, and contracts for more than 7,000 plus leased assets totaling over 180 million rentable square feet.

Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP)

OGP sets Government-wide policy in the areas of personal and real property, mail, travel, relocation, transportation, information technology, regulatory information, and the use of Federal advisory committees. OGP also helps direct how all Federal supplies and services are acquired as well as GSA's own acquisition programs.

OGP's policy regulations are described in the following subsections:

Office of Asset and Transportation Management - Federal Travel Regulation

The Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) enumerates travel and relocation policy for all U.S. Code, Title 5 Executive agency employees at www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr. Federal Register publications and complete versions of the FTR are available at www.gsa.gov/ftr. The Federal Travel Regulation presents policies in a clear manner to both agencies employees to assure that official travel is performed responsibly.

Office of Asset and Transportation Management - Federal Management Regulation

The Federal Management Regulation (FMR) establishes policy for Federal aircraft management, mail management, transportation, personal property, real property, and committee management. The FMR is the successor regulation to the Federal Property Management Regulation (FPMR), and it contains updated regulatory policies originally found in the FPMR. However, it does not contain FPMR material that describes how to do business with GSA. The FMR is in 41 CFR, chapters 101 through 102, and it implements statutory requirements and executive branch policies.

Office of Acquisition Policy - General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSAM) and General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR)

GSA's internal rules and practices on how it buys goods and services from its business partners are covered by the General Services Administration Acquisition Manual (GSAM), which implements and supplement the Federal Acquisition Regulation at GSA. The GSAM comprises both a non-regulatory portion (GSAM), which reflects policies with no external impact, and a regulatory portion, the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation (GSAR). The GSAR establishes agency acquisition regulations that affect GSA's business partners (e.g., prospective offerors and contractors) and acquisition of leasehold interests in real property. The latter are established under the authority of 40 U.S.C. 585, et seq. The GSAR implements contract clauses, solicitation provisions, and standard forms that control the relationship between GSA and contractors and prospective contractors.

Regulatory and Deregulatory Activities

GSA's Regulatory Reform Task Force, established under Executive Order 13777, enforcing the Regulatory Reform Agenda, and is making it easier to do business with GSA by eliminating outdated, ineffective, or unnecessary regulations and policies. When GSA established its Regulatory Reform Task Force it set up four informal working groups, led by career employees, and gave them broad authority to review and evaluate existing regulations and make recommendations regarding their repeal, replacement, or modification. Those working groups are organized around the agency's primary functions and regulations: the Federal Management Regulation, the Federal Travel Regulation, the GSA Acquisition Regulation, and policies relating to leasing of buildings.

During Fiscal Year 2018, GSA completed two (2) deregulatory actions.