GSA: Business Manager and Purchasing Agent for the World’s LARGEST customer.

Found this on the GSA Expo site and thought it was a good description of what the GSA is:


"GSA is the business manager and purchasing agent for the world’s largest customer, the U.S. Government.

Although GSA is a government agency, it operates in many ways like an entrepreneurial, commercial enterprise.

GSA purchases goods and services on a worldwide basis for federal civilian agencies, the military, the federal courts, and the U.S. Congress.

With over 16,000 contracts covering everything from office supplies to state-of-the-art technical and electronic equipment and professional services, GSA can meet the needs and wants of nearly all of our federal customers.

We provide billions of dollars worth of supplies and services each year with savings going to both our customers as well as to the taxpayers."

http://www.expo.gsa.gov/exhibitors.cfm