Commercial Platforms Initiative

GSA and OMB are hosting a modified town-hall style public meeting about the Commercial Platform initiative on June 21, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. EDT to 1:00 p.m. EDT. This meeting is being held both in-person and virtually through GSA’s online meeting platform, Adobe Connect. Registration has closed for in-person participation due to capacity constraints, this post provides more details. For those attending virtually, instructions for attending that session can be found directly below.

Public Meeting Agenda

Attached is the agenda for the upcoming public meeting: Procurement Through Commercial e-Commerce Portals, being held on June 21, 2018 from 8:30 a.m. EDT to 1:00 p.m. EDT.

In-Person Logistics

Please see the attached logistics document for important information for those that have registered and are planning to attend the in-person session.

Virtual Attendance Logistics

About the virtual session:

• There is no registration required to attend the virtual session.
• A court reporter will capture the details of the public event.  GSA will make that transcript available via this Interact group within a few days of the event conclusion.
• The virtual session will be ‘listen-only’ due to technical limitations, we will not respond to Commercial Platform related questions via this online forum.
• If you have specific items you would like to provide feedback on, we encourage you to submit feedback to the RFIs that have recently been released.
• To test your device’s ability to connect to Meeting Space, follow these instructions.
• View this Quick Guide for Meeting Participants provided by Adobe.

Instructions for attending the virtual session:

1. Navigate to the following link (note: this link will be available starting at 8:15am EDT on June 21st): https://meet.gsa.gov/commercialportals/
2. To login, please select the ‘Enter as a Guest” option and include the following identifying information: Name, Organization  [example: John Doe, ABC Corp]
3. Once the Meeting Space application loads, connect your audio by entering your phone number.
4. The public meeting will begin at 8:30am EDT.