Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Consolidating Procurement

Vol. 90

Tuesday,

No. 56

March 25, 2025

Part II

The President

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Executive Order 14240--Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars
by Consolidating Procurement

Executive Order 14241--Immediate Measures To Increase American Mineral
Production

Executive Order 14242--Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering
Parents, States, and Communities

Executive Order 14243--Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating
Information Silos

Memorandum of March 20, 2025--Strengthening the Suitability and Fitness
of the Federal Workforce

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Title 3--
The President

Executive Order 14240 of March 20, 2025

Eliminating Waste and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by
Consolidating Procurement

Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government spends
approximately $490 billion per year on Federal
contracts for common goods and services--the types of
goods and services purchased by nearly every executive
department and agency (agencies)--making it the largest
buyer of goods and services in the world. As a matter
of sound management, these standardized procurement
functions should be carried out in the most efficient
and effective manner possible for the American
taxpayer.

The General Services Administration was established in
1949 through the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act, 40 U.S.C. 101 et seq., to provide ``an
economical and efficient system'' for the core
procurement services for agencies (40 U.S.C. 101). It
is time to return the General Services Administration
to its original purpose, rather than continuing to have
multiple agencies and agency subcomponents separately
carry out these same functions in an uncoordinated and
less economical fashion.

Consolidating domestic Federal procurement in the
General Services Administration--the agency designed to
conduct procurement--will eliminate waste and
duplication, while enabling agencies to focus on their
core mission of delivering the best possible services
for the American people.

Sec. 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this order:

(a) ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of
General Services.
(b) ``Agency'' has the meaning given to it in
section 3502 of title 44, United States Code, except
that such term does not include the Executive Office of
the President or any components thereof.
(c) ``Agency head'' means the highest-ranking
official of an agency, such as the Secretary,
Administrator, Chairman, or Director.
(d) ``Common goods and services'' means the common
Government-wide categories defined by the Category
Management Leadership Council led by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB).
(e) ``Indefinite delivery contract vehicle'' means
an agreement through which an agency can order goods
and services over a defined period without setting
forth quantities or a delivery schedule up front.

Sec. 3. Procurement Consolidation. (a) Within 60 days
of the date of this order, agency heads shall, in
consultation with the agency's senior procurement
officials, submit to the Administrator proposals,
pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 101, 40 U.S.C. 501, or other
relevant authorities, to have the General Services
Administration conduct domestic procurement with
respect to common goods and services for the agency,
where permitted by law.

(b) Within 90 days of the date of this order, the
Administrator shall submit a comprehensive plan to the
Director of OMB for the General Services Administration
to procure common goods and services across the
domestic components of the Government, where permitted
by law.
(c) Within 30 days of the date of this order,
pursuant to the authority in 40 U.S.C. 11302(e), the
Director of OMB shall designate the Administrator as
the executive agent for all Government-wide acquisition
contracts for information technology. The
Administrator, in consultation with the Director

of OMB, shall defer or decline the executive agent
designation for Government-wide acquisition contracts
for information technology when necessary to ensure
continuity of service or as otherwise appropriate. The
Administrator shall further, on an ongoing basis and
consistent with applicable law, rationalize Government-
wide indefinite delivery contract vehicles for
information technology for agencies across the
Government, including as part of identifying and
eliminating contract duplication, redundancy, and other
inefficiencies.
(d) Within 14 days of the date of this order, the
Director of OMB shall issue a memorandum to agencies
implementing subsection (c) of this section.

Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order
shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department, agency, or the
head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent
with applicable law and subject to the availability of
appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not,
create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural,
enforceable at law or in equity by any party against
the United States, its departments, agencies, or
entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any
other person.

THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, March 20, 2025.