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GSA Advantage is an online government purchasing service run by the General Services Administration or GSA. 〔(Description of GSA Advantage at gsa.gov )〕 GSA Advantage is an online shopping and ordering service created within the GSA organization. Its mission is to provide a streamlined, efficient purchasing portal for federal agencies to acquire the goods and services needed. The purpose in creating this service was threefold. First to reduce the time, cost and bureaucracy in purchasing goods and services, second to ensure the lowest possible price was obtained and third is to verify contractors are qualified to sell to the federal government. The government’s description of the service is as stated: “Is the Federal Government’s premier online shopping superstore. With online access to millions of commercial products and services, GSA Advantage! ensures you are getting GSA-negotiated prices from GSA-approved sources.” The service is intended to benefit any federal agency that has access to the GSA Advantage program however two federal acts have allowed State and local governments to access and purchase from this service. Section 833 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act authorizes the Administrator of General Services to provide State and local governments the use of GSA’s Federal Supply Schedules for the purchase of products and services to be used to facilitate recovery from a major disaster, terrorism or nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological attack. Further Section 211 of the E-Government Act of 2002 authorized GSA sales of IT products and services to State & Local Governments through the introduction of Cooperative Purchasing. ==Purchasing== Purchasing agencies access the goods and services available in GSA Advantage through their website,(GSA Advantage Website ) . The site markets the products or services much like any other online merchant. The product and services can be shopped by category, supplier or descriptive terms. The site provides detailed product information including the GSA negotiated price for each item. This information is available to the public and requires no preauthorization to view. The site requires an agency to “Sign in” with a user created user name and password to initiate a purchase. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「GSA Advantage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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