“Good work by [GSA] for inking its first consolidated deal following the President’s Executive Order: Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement,” DOGE said in a post on X. “This will be the first of many bulk discounts as a result of centralized procurement.”
Billionaire DOGE chief Elon Musk, who owns the X social media platform, reposted DOGE’s post with his own message: “Just ensuring common sense deals for the taxpayer.”
The deal inked Thursday by GSA and Google set off a chain reaction that prompted several competing large tech companies to engage GSA, according to two sources familiar.
The temporary pricing discount allows all agencies, including the Defense Department, to purchase Google Workspace software, which includes applications like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs and Meet, as well as AI tools like Gemini and NotebookLM.
Google has its sights set on cracking Microsoft’s dominant hold on productivity software across the federal government. While Google Workspace is used by several hundred thousand government employees — including personnel within GSA, the Energy Department, the Air Force Research Laboratory and others — most government departments run on Microsoft 365.
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Prompted by President Trump’s executive order centralizing procurement under GSA, Google Public Sector vice president of federal business Jim Kelly told Nextgov/FCW the com ..
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