The General Services Administration (GSA) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies. The GSA supplies products and communications for U.S. government offices, provides transportation and office space to federal employees, and develops governmentwide cost-minimizing policies, among other management tasks. Its stated mission is to "help federal agencies better serve the public by offering, at best value, superior workplaces, expert solutions, acquisition services and management policies." Image File history File links Gsa_logo. ... This category contains Independent agencies of the United States government, those Executive Branch agencies that exist outside of the Executive Departments. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...

GSA employs around 13,000 federal workers, and has an annual operating budget around $16 billion, of which approximately 1% is appropriated from tax-payer dollars. GSA oversees $66 billion of procurement annually and contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. Federal property, mostly divided among 8,000 owned and leased buildings and a 130,000 vehicle motor pool. Among the real estate assets the GSA manages is the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, the largest U.S. Federal building after The Pentagon. The Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, named after the 40th president of the United States, is the first federal building in Washington, D.C. designed for both governmental and private sector purposes. ... A pre-9/11 view of The Pentagon, looking east with the Potomac River and Washington Monument in the distance. ...

GSA's business lines include the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) and the Public Buildings Service (PBS). Other divisions include the Office of Governmentwide Policy, and various Staff Offices, including the Office of Small Business Utilization, the Office of Citizen Services and Communications, and the Office of Civil Rights. It conducts its business activities through 11 offices (known as GSA Regions) throughout the United States, located in: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Ft. Worth, Kansas City, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle (Auburn), and Washington, D.C.

The National Archives and Records Administration was also part of the GSA, until it was made an independent agency in 1985. The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government charged with preserving and documenting government and historical records. ... This article is about the year. ...

The GSA is often accused of bureaucratic inefficiency and corruption. Currently GSA is considering early-outs and buy-outs for 395 associates, due to a severe decline in revenue and is in the midst of a reorganization which merges the Federal Supply Service (FSS) and Federal Technology Service (FTS) business lines into FAS. The GSA's Acting Administrator, David Bibb, manages the agency until a new administrator, a political appointee, is named. Bush Administration political appointee Stephen A. Perry resigned as GSA Administrator October 31, 2005. David Bibb is the current Acting Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government. ...

External links

• GSA Official Site