GSA SmartPay® Basic Information

The GSA SmartPay® program provides charge cards to agencies/departments throughout the U.S. government, as well as tribal governments, through master contracts that are negotiated with major national banks. There are currently over 350 agencies/organizations participating in the GSA SmartPay® program spending more than $30 billion annually, through over 100 million transactions on nearly three million cards. See the Program Statistics section for more information.

The GSA SmartPay® program office currently manages three master contracts with charge card providers; Citibank, JPMorganChase, and U.S. Bank. Through these contracts, agencies can obtain a number of different types of charge card products and services to support their mission needs, including:

• Purchase Cards:  For purchasing general supplies and services;
• Travel Cards:  For travel expenses related to official government travel (airline, hotel, meals, incidentals);
• Fleet Cards:  For fuel and supplies for government vehicles; and
• Integrated Cards:  Two or more business lines (card types) whose processes are integrated into one card.

Qualified agencies/organizations that are interested in obtaining charge card services can issue a task order under the master contract, and receive offers from the charge card providers.

The current SmartPay® 2 contract includes a transitional period and a transactional period. The transitional period began on the date of award and ends November 29, 2008. The transactional period (when actual transactions began to be processed through systems belonging to/associated with successful offerors) began as early as November 30, 2007, and has a four-year base period, with one four-year option period, and one three-year option period.