How to Create a GACA

Pacific Rim Region

How to Create a GSA Affiliated Customer Account (GACA)
1. Create a Gmail account at http://mail.google.com/mail/signup o

Enter the first name and last name

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Enter the username: must start with “GSA.” then first name, last name example: [email protected]

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Complete all required fields

2. Accept the Terms of Service and submit the request.
3. Set up 2-Step Verification (also known as two-factor authentication) using a smartphone that can receive simple messages.
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Click on the account profile picture (top right)

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Click “Manage your Google Account”

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Select “Security” on the left side navigation panel

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In the “Signing in to Google” section, turn “2-Step Verification” to “On”

GSA Affiliated Customer Accounts (GACA) Process, May 2017 instructional letter attached for additional reference.

U.S. General Services Administration
www.gsa.gov

U.S. General Services Administration
Office of the GSA IT
www.gsa.gov/cio

Date:
May 1, 2017
Subject:
Gmail accounts - GSA Affiliated Customer Accounts (GACA) - for sharing in GSA’s Google Drive and Google Sites
GSA uses Google to provide employees with a way to collaborate in real time, and to create, edit and share work from anywhere. To enable simliar sharing and collaboration in Google with our government customers and business partners, while also ensuring that this shared information is safeguarded and secure, we’ve created a specialized Gmail account process called GACA – short for the GSA Affiliated Customer Accounts (GACA). Collaborative data stored on GSA’s Google Drive and Google Sites systems are compliant to the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2. This standard ensures that access and transmission occurs via a secure web page using the TLS 1.2 encryption standard.
Applicability – GACA is for those who work for our government customers and business partners who do not use Google in their workplace. Agencies and civilian partners that are using Google in their workplace do not need to create a GACA account. GACA accounts must NOT be used by GSA employees and contractors in lieu of a gsa.gov account. How to create a GSA Affiliated Customer Account (GACA) in Gmail The person who will be using the GACA account (the government agency customer or the business partner) must create a Gmail account at http://mail.google.com/mail/signup and follow the process below:
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enter their first name and last name,

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enter their username: must start with “GSA.” then first name, last name example: [email protected] (mandatory),