The Office of  Governmentwide Policy (OGP) consolidates all of GSA's governmentwide policy-making activities within one central office.  These include the federal government's strategies to acquire $200 billion a year in goods and services, the $8 billion a year spent on government travel, and the tens of billions of dollars spent each year on internal administrative management systems. OGP is working to re-engineer the traditional policy development model to emphasize collaborative development.

The new model calls for involvement of other federal agencies, the private sector, interested parties, and other stakeholders from the very onset of policy review and/or formulation. Such collaborative efforts are seen to offer numerous advantages, not least of which is to ensure "buy-in" from the policy customers.

OGP's goal is clear. OGP wants to ensure that governmentwide policies allow and encourage agencies to develop and utilize the best, most cost effective management practices for the conduct of their specific programs.