Adobe, GSA ink access and discount software pact
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By
Ross Wilkers
Agencies can now buy the company's document management software at a significantly lower price, which is similar to the General Services Administration's agreement with Google.
The General Services Administration has struck a third enterprise agreement with a major consumer technology provider, inking a pact with Adobe for access to the company’s document management software.
Adobe will offer its Paperless Government Solution suite to agencies at a 70% discount off the current GSA list price through Nov. 30, the agency said Thursday.
GSA structured this arrangement through OneGov, a unified procurement strategy it unveiled in April to standardize how the federal government acquires tech products from original equipment manufacturers.
In the OneGov announcement, GSA cited similar agreements with Google and Microsoft that center around their cloud-based email and collaboration tools that dominate the consumer market. The pact with Google also includes a discount of 71%.
Adobe is widely known as the developer of the Portable Document Format and its flagship Adobe Reader software to work with PDFs, both of which have become largely ubiquitous in consumer tech and are widely used across government.
The pact with GSA covers the Adobe Paperless Government Solution suite of document management, integration, and collaboration tools, electronic signatures, secure document workflows, and forms modernization tools.
“This agreement with Adobe is another example of GSA leading a transformative change in how the federal government buys goods and services, with a focus on commercial products,” GSA’s acting administrator Stephen Ehikian said in a release. “We’re moving away from outdated and fragmented agency-by-agency purchasing, towards strategic procurement decisions.”
Adobe has also agreed to offer two variations of the bundle that accommodate agencies’ current entitlements, aim to reduce duplication, and align with paperless government requirements.
The bundle will be available via GSA’s Multiple Award Schedule, a program for agencies to acquire commercially-available goods and services at pre-negotiated pricing.
Adobe’s Paperless Government Solution bundle includes the following:
- Adobe Acrobat Premium for Enterprise Subscription
- Adobe Express for Enterprise Subscription
- Adobe Acrobat Sign for Enterprise Subscription
- Adobe Sign for Gov Enterprise Subscription ProSvcs
- Adobe Acrobat Sign for Enterprise Support Plan
- Adobe Experience Manager Forms - Enterprise
- Adobe Experience Manager: MS Enhanced Security