For an example of how incompetent the GSA is, and why moving 18F underneath it was such a crap idea, look no further than the 2012 Oversight hearing on "Address

For an example of how incompetent the GSA is, and why moving 18F underneath it was such a crap idea, look no further than the 2012 Oversight hearing on "Addressing GSA's Culture of Wasteful Spending": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oekP6OGbo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oekP6OGbo The GSA is a living, breathing oxymoron. They try to simplify government purchasing by making 999 rules and hoops to jump through, burning through cash and taking a percentage of every contract put through the organization. It's a giant cancerous scam that was allowed to grow so big it can't be killed or stopped, like the IRS/Fed.