Computacenter has acquired yet another US business whose name signals exactly why it acquired it.
The LSE-listed reseller and services goliath has splashed $92m on Government Acquisitions Inc (GAI) in a move CEO Mike Norris says will hand it “access to a new market for growth in the United States”.
Computacenter’s market value last month breached £4bn for the first time on the back of its burgeoning success in North America. It has since risen to nearly £4.5bn.
Focusing on the US federal government market, Cincinnati-based GAI was Nvidia’s US Public Sector Partner of the Year for 2025.
It reported 2025 adjusted EBITDA and gross invoiced income of around $8m and $390m, respectively.
M&A play in North America
GAI marks Computacenter’s fifth North American acquisition, following its purchases of FusionStorm, Pivot, Business IT Source and AgreeYa in 2018, 2020, 2022 and January 2026, respectively.
The ink is barely dry on the most-recent of those deals, which was designed to redress the relatively low contribution of services to its North American business.
In contrast, GAI is a value-added reseller which will operate as a specialist federal government focused unit within Computacenter’s North American operations.
At $92m, GAI’s price is a tad less than that of AgreeYa ($120m), roughly in line with those of FusionStorm ($90m) and Pivot (CAD $105.8m) ($76m), and more than double that of Business IT Source ($35.1m).
The AgreeYa and GAI deals come after Norris told us, “I don’t need to make more acquisitions in North America, but I’d like to”.
North America has been Computacenter’s golden child in recent years, generating 45% and 39% of its 2025 £13bn gross invoiced income and £272m adjusted operating profit, respectively.
“We are proud of the relationships we have built with public sector customers across Europe and Canada and are delighted to have the opportunity to bring one of the leading US federal government VARs into Computacenter,” Norris said.
“GAI provides us with access to a new market for growth in the United States, diversifies our business and leverages our growing capabilities and infrastructure.”
