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GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2025 three AI companies offered the US government their enterprise products for almost nothing. OpenAI put ChatGPT Enterprise on the table at $1 per agency for a year. Anthropic offered Claude for $1 across all three branches of government. Google came in at 47 cents for Gemini. All three went through OneGov, a programme the General Services Administration launched in April 2025 to negotiate governmentwide deals directly with big software makers.

The US Still Has No National Digital ID, So OMB Orders Agencies Onto Login.gov Within Two Years

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On 31 August 2026 the White House budget office told federal agencies to make Login.gov the default way Americans sign in to government services. Memo M-26-18 gives agencies two years to offer Login.gov on every public-facing site in scope, and one year for the highest-traffic services. Commercial identity providers such as ID.me and CLEAR are allowed only by exception. Defence, intelligence and national security systems are exempt.

It’s the closest thing Washington has to a national digital identity policy. The United States has no national ID card and no state-issued digital ID. What it has is a patchwork: a GSA login service, a private company running identity checks for the tax agency, and driver’s licences issued by fifty states.

GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule is the federal government’s biggest catalogue of things it can buy without a full tender. GSA says it moves more than $52 billion a year in products and services. An analysis of GSA data puts fiscal 2025 sales at about $50.6 billion, with about 14,600 contract holders and roughly a third of sales going to small businesses.

It’s in the middle of a shake-up. In fiscal 2025 GSA cut about 1,600 contracts it judged unnecessary. In May 2026 it reorganised its Federal Acquisition Service, putting the schedule in one office alongside its big governmentwide IT contracts. And since March 2025, an executive order has made GSA the central buyer of common goods and services for the whole government.