TELECOMMUNICATIONS. GSA Action Needed to Realize Benefits of Metropolitan Area Acquisition Program

Abstract

As you know, the Metropolitan Area Acquisition (MAA) program provides local telecommunications services to federal agencies in selected metropolitan areas. The MAA program manager, the General Services Administration (GSA), initiated the program in 1997 to achieve immediate, substantial, and sustained price reductions for local telecommunications for agencies, to expand their choices of high-quality services, and to encourage cross-agency sharing of resources. Further, service providers that are awarded contracts under the MAA program are allowed to compete for GSA's FTS2001 long distance service contracts, so that federal agencies may potentially acquire end-to-end local and long distance telecommunications services from one source.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA401617

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