GSA reorganizes Federal Acquisition Service around acquisition lifecycle, citing $115 billion in revenue and shifting buying patterns

GSA has restructured its Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) into five mission-aligned offices, citing more than a decade of growth that has pushed FAS revenue past $115 billion in fiscal 2025 and exposed misalignments in business processes and IT systems, according to acting FAS Commissioner Laura Stanton.

Stanton told Federal News Network that the Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) program had been spread across four portfolios in the legacy FAS, producing "inconsistent service" and "differing interpretations" for vendors selling across categories. Consolidating MAS under a single management chain is intended to deliver a more uniform experience for both contractors and agency buyers.

The move builds on prior changes, including the 2017 absorption of the Technology Transformation Services and the 2023 realignment of the Assisted Acquisition Service.

Announced 1 May 2026, FAS now operates under five offices organized around the acquisition life cycle with unspecific names:

• Assist: Office of Assisted Acquisition Services (Pete Burr): "complex" acquisitions and surge support
• Centralize: Centralized Acquisition Services (Tom Merion): a new opt-in shared service for smaller-dollar buys, already supporting more than 50 agencies, including SBA and OPM, apparently trying to increase so-called spend under management for those agencies suspicious of the unlucky FAR Part 13 or actually believe GSA can do acquisition better
• Create: Office of Acquisition Solutions Development (Larry Hale): MAS, OneGov, Alliant 3, Polaris, OASIS+ and Enterprise Infrastructure Services; this office stands up the IDIQ vehicles used by Assist and Centralize, and that may explain the solutions development framing
• Deliver: Office of Shared Services Delivery (Jeff Lau): SmartPay, USAccess, federal PKI, fleet (230,000-plus vehicles) and global supply; These are the odds and ends that properly belong under "Create" and should be integrated with those contracts' acquisition planning and strategies, but no one asked me
• Optimize: Office of Business Optimization (Mark Lee): IT modernization, governance, and stakeholder engagement

Stanton said FAS assistant commissioners will spend the coming months building teams and modernizing the IT systems behind MAS, with broader updates this summer.