GSA’s commercial platforms program to grow by five providers

Agencies will soon have more choices to buy commercial products from under the General Services Administration’s Commercial Platform program.

GSA is expanding the number of providers from three to eight, including six new ones.

Along with current platform providers Amazon Business and Fisher Scientific, GSA awarded spots on the next generation Commercial Platform Initiative (CPI) contract to:

• e-Procurement Services
• Grainger
• Noble Supply & Logistics
• Pacific Ink
• Social Glass
• Staples

Four of the awardees, ePS, Noble Supply, Pacific Ink and Social Glass, are small businesses, opening the door for agencies to obtain small business credit for these small dollar buys.

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