San Francisco-based MobShop, Inc., a provider of group buying services on the Internet, has been selected to power group buying on buyers.gov, the U.S. General Service Administration's (GSA) new website.

Under a one-year pilot program driven by the Federal Technology Service (FTS), MobShop's will power the group buying engine of the buyers.gov eFast program, allowing the GSA to pool individual and agency purchases for volume-based savings.

The FTS group is the technology products procurement agency in the federal government responsible for purchasing more than $3 billion in technology related products and services for federal employees each year. MobShop is one of nine companies that have been chosen by the GSA to power various procurement engines on buyers.gov during the pilot period. The website will allow government employees and agencies to purchase computers, printers, servers and other technology commodities through online auctions, demand aggregation, and by requesting price quotes.