The General Services Administration has informed President-elect Joe Biden through a letter that GSA will now make federal resources and services available to help facilitate the presidential transition, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In an ascertainment letter obtained by the publication, GSA Administrator Emily Murphy said the agency will provide $6.3M in government funds to help the Biden transition team implement the provisions of the Presidential Transition Act of 1963.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed Trent Benishek as general counsel, where he will supervise the agency’s Office of General Counsel. The counsel has 137 attorneys nationwide, and serve as the chief legal advisor to the GSA administrator. I am thrilled Trent has joined GSA as our general counsel, as his experience and leadership bring great value to our agency,” said Emily Murphy. 

The General Services Administration has issued the solicitation for the 8(a) STARS III governmentwide acquisition contract, the agency announced Monday. “I am very proud of GSA’s work in developing the STARS III GWAC with a contract ceiling of $50 billion, more than twice the size of STARS II,” said Emily Murphy, administrator of GSA and 2020 Wash100 awardee.

The General Services Administration has raised the ceiling value of the Streamlined Technology Application Resource for Services II contract for information technology vendors certified under the Small Business Administration 8(a) program from $15B to $22B.

The General Services Administration and the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center have  awarded Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) a potential five-year, $800 million task order to develop artificial intelligence-based technology platforms to support future warfighting missions.

The General Services Administration and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, have partnered in a strategic agreement to modernize NICHD information technology operations, the GSA announced on Monday.

The General Services Administration has begun the process of soliciting e-commerce platforms to demonstrate an initial proof-of-concept meant to simplify buying and selling transactions in the federal government.

The General Services Administration has posted on FedBizOpps a single solicitation notice for a Multiple Award Schedule that consolidates 24 MAS contracts covering a wide variety of commercial products and services. “This is an important first step toward our goal of simplifying the experience for customers, suppliers and GSA’s acquisition workforce," said Emily Murphy, administrator of GSA and a 2019 Wash100 winner.

Two teams led by Carahsoft Technology and Grant Thornton have received task orders under the General Services Administration’s potential $2.5B NewPay blanket purchase agreement to modernize payroll processing systems that support more than 2.2M federal civilian workers.

The General Services Administration has awarded contracts to 12 companies to support the Department of Agriculture’s information technology modernization efforts under the second phase of the Centers of Excellence program. USDA serves as the first “lighthouse” agency for the CoE program and the Phase II awards came two months after …