"With the overlapping impact of the phasing out of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the post-2010 austerity measures forced by the House GOP, and the fade-out of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; the way in which the government spends will largely shift to GSA contracted companies," states John West , Senior Advisor at Government Market Expert, a boutique GSA and Government Procurement Marketing firm. He adds, "we've been helping small businesses of every kind sell to the government for the past 16 years as the rush to government procurement expands."