What is the relationship between the General Services Administration and the VA Federal Supply Schedule Service?
The General Service Administration (GSA) has overall responsibility for the management of the Federal Government’s Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) programs for supplies and services through the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. This act established GSA’s FSS as a central organization to provide an economic and efficient system for the procurement, supply, and disposal of surplus property, and performance of related functions. GSA delegated the responsibility of managing FSS programs related to medical products and services to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Through this delegation, the VA National Acquisition Center (NAC) has managed the FSS programs for all medical related products under FSC classes 65 and 66. In 2001, the VA/FSS programs were expanded to include services under FSS programs 621 I (Professional and Allied Healthcare Staffing Services), and 621 II (Reference Laboratory Services) was added shortly thereafter.
