GSAXcess is the
federal governments website, where all the property being made available is
showcased. This is where I and another Surplusian go to peruse items and make
determinations as to what to bring to the Surplus Property warehouse. We also
give login creds to donee’s upon request, so that they can go in and look
around for property for their respective donee agencies. This is a “look only”
login, and agencies identify what they would like to screen for their
agencies/organizations. Who knows better what sort of items they
want/need/desire?
For the past few
months, federal agencies have been training and getting ready for a transition
to a new inventory system, known as Personal Property Management System, or
just PPMS for short. As of today, GSAXcess has been mostly disabled, and PPMS
will go online July 24. For those of you that have current login creds for
GSAXcess, we have been assured that those will work for PPMS. We know how that
goes sometimes, so if you have any problems, just let us know and we’ll
get you fixed up.
Attached is the
announcement with pertinent information, including
a link to the PPMS site. If you click on it now, it will give you a “403” error
because they haven’t flipped the switch yet. Again,
this will go live on July 24, so if there are any questions, please feel
free to let me know.
I have been trained
up on it, and I was not able to break it, which is a good sign. But it does
appear to be very user-friendly, so if I can do it, I have every faith in your
abilities to navigate it successfully.
Thank you for your
time, and please feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
Darren Kennedy, OPBC, Program
Analyst | DAS Enterprise Asset
Management | 503-378-6022 | www.oregonsurplus.com