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(Bloomberg) -- Adobe Inc. will offer a package of its products to the government at a discounted rate following scrutiny on software spending by the Trump administration.
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A bundle of Adobe software, including the Acrobat application for handling PDF files, will be available to the government at a 70% discount to current list prices through November, the US General Services Administration said Thursday in a statement.
The Trump administration has sought to cut costs across agencies, including spending on technology. Contracts with companies such as Oracle Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. have also been affected.
The Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-led effort to reduce spending, has said that many agencies are paying for more software than is used and specifically called out Adobe Acrobat licenses in March.
“We are committed to continually finding new ways to partner with the government to drive greater value for taxpayers and support digitization efforts to better serve the American people,” Adobe said in a blog post. The discount will allow “federal agencies to benefit from pricing efficiencies at scale.”
Over time, more federal procurement of information technology will be centralized at the GSA, the agency said in the statement. It is “giving all agencies access to the very best technologies at the best prices,” GSA Acting Administrator Stephen Ehikian said in the statement. Ehikian is a former Salesforce Inc. executive.
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