The California Department of General Services (DGS) is a state government agency in the California State and Consumer Services Agency of the executive branch of the government of California in the United States. It provides a large number of services to other agencies in the government of California, playing a role that is similar to that played by the General Services Administration for the federal government of the United States.
DGS is located at The Ziggurat in West Sacramento, a city contiguous with California's state capital but separated by the Sacramento River.
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The most important responsibility of DGS is acquiring, caring for, and disposing of state property, including state buildings and the state vehicle fleet.
It also provides services like: administrative hearings, human resources admin, insurance, procurement and acquisition, publishing, real estate management and design, telecommunications, transportation, funding for the construction of schools, records management, training, and videoconferencing.
The agency is organized into six divisions and 23 offices, and employs more than 4,000 employees. It has a budget in excess of half a billion dollars.
The Procurement Division serves as the purchasing function for many State agencies and departments and awards contracts on their behalf.
It buys virtually everything the state government needs with the exception of:
Contracts and leases are mostly awarded by individual state agencies.
The Procurement Division also delegates procurement authority to certain agencies and departments which then have the authority to place contracts on their own behalf.
In 2004, DGS became part of the Governor's Green Building Initiative per Executive Order S-20-04 which calls for public buildings to be 20% more energy efficient by 2015.