Building Operations

Hand Sanitizer

Highlights:

• GSA will provide hand sanitizer for GSA-controlled facilities entries and common areas.
• Agencies have to provide wipes, gloves, and disinfectant for people to clean their workstations.

UPDATEDQ: Who is responsible for providing hand sanitizer in GSA-controlled facilities?

A: GSA will provide hand sanitizer in the building entrances and common areas of federally owned GSA-controlled facilities. In GSA-controlled lease locations, the lessor is responsible for procuring and providing hand sanitizer in building entrances and common areas. Individual agencies are responsible for procuring and providing hand sanitizer within their occupied spaces, whether leased or federally owned. Agencies will also make available wipes and other EPA-approved disinfectants, as necessary, for individuals to wipe down their workstation and related personal property within their occupied areas.

Face Mask and Hand Sanitizer Purchases

Highlights:

• Use GSA Advantage! Disaster Relief Products aisle to buy emergency response products.

Q: Our agency would like to provide our employees and visitors to our space with face masks and hand sanitizer. Where can these items be purchased?

A: Emergency response products are available through the GSA Advantage! Disaster Relief Products aisle. If a product you want to purchase is backordered on GSA Advantage!, we recommend you contact the vendor directly, as stock levels change daily.

Cleaning and Disinfection

Highlights:

• GSA’s regular custodial service for GSA-controlled facilities includes routinely cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces in common and high-traffic areas.
• GSA also does enhanced environmental cleaning after confirmed or suspected COVID-19 cases.
• The occupant agency cleans individual workstations and personal property.

Q: Does GSA already provide the level of environmental cleaning required by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-21-15 and the updated Model Safety Principles issued on July 29, 2021, or does my agency need to ask for that service?

A: GSA’s regular custodial service for GSA-controlled facilities includes the routine cleaning and disinfection of frequently touched surfaces in common and high-traffic areas of the facility, with the exception of individual workstations and related personal property, which are the occupant agency’s responsibility to clean and disinfect. In the event of a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 in the workplace, agencies should perform enhanced environmental cleaning of the spaces that the individual occupied or accessed in accordance with CDC and, where applicable, GSA guidelines.