GSA launched its OneGov strategy in April 2025 to offer agencies discounted rates on certain private sector technology and software services by treating the government as a single customer. More than a dozen companies – including Microsoft, SAP and xAI – have so far entered into agreements with GSA to offer significant discounts on select products.
In response to a question from Next Government/FCW On how the initiative is helping to bring more AI tools into government, GSA Chief AI Officer and Data Scientist Zach Whitman said that, for those “who want to see some level of adoption for experimentation with low-risk use cases, this has opened up a procurement process for many of these agencies that may have had early, light exposure to some of these technologies.”
He added: “We want to make sure that these technologies don’t look so different to normal government purchasing companies that, ‘Maybe we’ll come back to that later.’ We want to make it available.”
GSA announced Thursday that it has reached a OneGov deal with Cohesity, which provides AI-powered data security solutions. In a statement announcing the agreement, Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, said the deal “will strengthen and enable a robust and secure AI infrastructure across the federal government, directly supporting the President.” [Donald] Trump’s call for America to win the AI race.”
That agreement came after GSA struck a similar deal with Meta to give agencies discounts on access to its open source AI models, and with ServiceNow to also make significant cuts to the costs of its AI platform and range of agentic AI capabilities.
Whitman said the OneGov agreements “have been used, I think, primarily as a way to draw attention to, ‘Here are some options that we’d like you to consider’ – you are these agencies and potentially the general procurement space.”
Many of the OneGov deals have set expiration dates, although senior GSA procurement officials have said they expect the initiative will help create lasting partnerships with industry.
GSA also launched a government-wide AI testing platform in August 2025 to help agencies experiment with and adopt a variety of tools. Known as USAi, the tool aligns with some of the priorities outlined in the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan released last July, which in part called for the development of an AI assessment suite.
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