The General Services Administration has established a new office within its Federal Acquisition Service — the Office of Centralized Acquisition Services — that will serve as a central hub supporting a variety of federal agencies’ acquisition efforts for nearly $500 billion worth of goods and services each year.
The office has been in the works for months since President Donald Trump’s March 20 executive order on procurement consolidation and follows a series of major acquisition efforts undertaken by the agency, including a rewrite of Federal Acquisition Regulation.
GSA Acting Administrator Michael J. Rigas has signed off on the office and longtime GSA senior executive Thomas Meiron will serve as the assistant commissioner for the new OCAS, according to sources familiar. Meiron has nearly 30 years of experience as a procurement official and has served as acting assistant commissioner for the FAS Office of Customer and Stakeholder Engagement for the past seven months.