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GSA and SBA Audit 689 Suspended 8a Contractors Whose Federal Contracts Carry a $5.5 Billion Ceiling

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration and the Small Business Administration are auditing the federal contracts of 689 firms suspended from the SBA’s 8(a) program, contracts with a combined ceiling of $5.5 billion. GSA announced the review on October 21, 2026.

The 8(a) Business Development Program lets small businesses owned by people the SBA counts as socially and economically disadvantaged compete for set-aside and sole-source federal work. To stay in, a firm has to meet tests on personal net worth, adjusted gross income, total assets, character and its potential for success. The SBA says its own assessment found hundreds of participants that hadn’t shown they met those tests and kept getting contracts and procurement priority anyway. GSA will go through those contracts one by one and send suspected fraud to its inspector general and the Justice Department.

GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2025 three AI companies offered the US government their enterprise products for almost nothing. OpenAI put ChatGPT Enterprise on the table at $1 per agency for a year. Anthropic offered Claude for $1 across all three branches of government. Google came in at 47 cents for Gemini. All three went through OneGov, a program the General Services Administration launched in April 2025 to negotiate governmentwide deals directly with big software makers.

Login.gov Now Accepts Mobile Driver's Licenses, but Only About 20 States Issue Them and Apple Wallet Isn't Supported Yet

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2026 Login.gov, the federal sign-in service run by GSA, began accepting mobile driver’s licenses to prove identity. Users with a state ID in Google Wallet or Samsung Wallet can now verify themselves without photographing a plastic card and taking a selfie. Apple Wallet isn’t supported yet. The feature is optional, and the original target was March 2026.

On September 30 GSA’s identity proofing contractor, Xcelerate Solutions, with Socure as subcontractor, said its $163 million, five-year order now supports the mobile license flow.

The US Still Has No National Digital ID, So OMB Orders Agencies Onto Login.gov Within Two Years

Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

On August 31, 2026, the White House budget office told federal agencies to make Login.gov the default way Americans sign in to government services. Memo M-26-18 gives agencies two years to offer Login.gov on every public-facing site in scope, and one year for the highest-traffic services. Commercial identity providers such as ID.me and CLEAR are allowed only by exception. Defense, intelligence and national security systems are exempt.

It’s the closest thing Washington has to a national digital identity policy. The United States has no national ID card and no state-issued digital ID. What it has is a patchwork: a GSA login service, a private company running identity checks for the tax agency, and driver’s licenses issued by fifty states.

GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule is the federal government’s biggest catalog of things it can buy without a full tender. GSA says it moves more than $52 billion a year in products and services. An analysis of GSA data puts fiscal 2025 sales at about $50.6 billion, with about 14,600 contract holders and roughly a third of sales going to small businesses.

It’s in the middle of a shake-up. In fiscal 2025 GSA cut about 1,600 contracts it judged unnecessary. In May 2026 it reorganized its Federal Acquisition Service, putting the schedule in one office alongside its big governmentwide IT contracts. And since March 2025, an executive order has made GSA the central buyer of common goods and services for the whole government.