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Now the US government is adding OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic officially for accelerating their use to make a key federal contracting platform. The General Services Administration (GSA) will list these companies as approved vendors on its Multiple Award Schedule. This is a move that makes it easy and fast how the federal agencies to acquire and deploy such AI tools like GPT, Gemini, and Claude. It is a big turnaround, as now instead of each agency negotiating contracts from scratch, they can now access all the AI tools under some pre-negotiated terms. This will significantly improve the time taken to bring new tech into the government workflow.

Why This Matters

The departments like treasury, Homeland Security, and OPM have got their way paved because of GSA’s decision, as it will now be used even broadly across the civilian federal agencies. These tools can now support everything from fraud detection to customer service chatbots that were previously limited to only pilot programmes or national security.

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As per Stephen Ehikian, the GSA Deputy administrator, the goal isn’t to favour one company over another. “We want the maximum number of tools to provide to all federal government employees to make them as productive as possible,” he said. Also, “There are going to be different tools for different use cases,” he added.

How This Changes Procurement

The Multiple Award Schedule is a streamlined federal procurement vehicle with already-established contract terms. By adding AI vendors to this list, the GSA removes a major hurdle for adoption—agencies won’t need to spend months crafting individual agreements or negotiating pricing.

Officials didn’t disclose the exact contract terms, but the GSA has a history of using its buying power to negotiate major discounts with major tech firms like Adobe, Salesforce, and Google.

While OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are the first to make the cut, the GSA emphasized that more vendors will be added. These three simply progressed further in the approval pipeline.

A Bigger Political Shift Underway

The announcement comes shortly after President Donald Trump signed three AI-related executive orders, one of which requires that federal agencies procure AI models that are “free from ideological bias.” Enforcement of this “anti-woke AI” mandate will be managed agency by agency, but GSA Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum emphasized urgency: “This is a race, right? And as the president said, we’re going to win this race.”

Meanwhile, other agencies—like the Pentagon—are already working with AI vendors through separate agreements, including contracts with OpenAI and xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company.

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What Agencies Want AI To Do

Many agencies already have plans for how to use these newly approved tools. Some examples include:

  • Office of Personnel Management: Develop chatbots and summarize tens of thousands of public comments during rulemaking processes.
  • Treasury Department: Use AI for tasks like fraud detection and regulatory analysis.
  • Patent Office and Grant Review: Speed up application reviews and help sort through submissions.
  • Internal Communications: Automate copyediting for press releases and official documents.

But along with these ambitions comes the need for talent. OPM Director Scott Kupor admitted that many agencies lack personnel with modern AI expertise. “We’re probably missing people who are super conversant with very modern, AI-related stuff,” he said. “Clearly, we can’t just throw things against the wall and see what sticks.”

As now the OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are now officially approved for federal use AI will now go full scale government adoption. It’s a huge step towards modernising the public services. Also now AI will be taken seriously in Washington across all departments. Everything now just depends on how fast each agency can adapt it.