GSA has awarded a contract giving federal agencies an additional travel savings tool as part of the E-Gov Travel Service that could yield big savings.
ETS is a cloud-based service used by more than 90 federal agencies for travel booking and expense management. Since it was launched in 2003, agencies consolidated some 250 independently managed travel systems, and increased the government’s use of online travel services by 63 percent, saving over $20 million annually, according to GSA.
It said the contract award to CWTSatoTravel (CWT) provides an additional e-booking service called ETS2, expected to drive competition and improve innovation, and that ETS2 wouldfurther consolidate online travel booking already taking place in ETS.
Further, ETS2 will increase the government’s purchasing power through in-depth analysis of government-wide travel data, GSA said. CTW will compete under the contract (performance-based, firm fixed price, 15-year maximum period) for task orders to provide travel planning, authorization, reservations, ticketing fulfillment, expense reimbursement and travel management reporting to federal agencies.
