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GSA Taps Google’s Gemini for Government at 47 Cents per Agency

The OneGov agreement advances the administration’s AI Action Plan by standardizing low-cost access to enterprise AI across federal offices.

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A window at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. (REUTERS / Stephen Lam)
Google is providing cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools to the US government as CEO Sundar Pichai makes a priority of promoting the internet giant's technology over that of rivals

Overview

  • The offer gives agencies a one-year license priced at $0.47 per agency with availability through 2026, and Google has not detailed pricing after the trial period.
  • The package includes Gemini models, NotebookLM, Veo, Google-quality enterprise search, video and image generation, and prebuilt agents for Deep Research and Idea Generation with options to build custom agents.
  • Google says individual components meet FedRAMP High authorization, while the full platform’s compliance approach is still being finalized.
  • GSA positioned the deal within its centralized OneGov procurement model after adding Google, OpenAI and Anthropic to its schedule, following earlier $1-per-agency offers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
  • Industry critics warn of potential vendor lock-in from steep short-term discounts, and AI firm Ask Sage has filed bid protests against earlier OneGov AI awards on competition and pricing grounds.