--Army Blanket Purchase Agreement BPA for Office Products

On 1 October 2002 the Army mandated the use of a group of Blanket Purchase Agreements BPA for the purchase of office products. The primary goals of this BPA initiative were to ensure that office product purchases were in compliance with the statutory preferences afforded to products manufactured under the Javis Wagner ODay Act JWOD now known as Ability One and to capture economies of scale. The purpose of this annoucement is to alert vendors and consortiums of the new procurement of the Army BPAs. Army Contracting Command Regional Contracting Center Fort Knox intends to procure office products through the issuance of Blanket Purchase Agreements under the GSA Federal Supply Schedules. RFQ availablity date is estimated October 2008 via Federal Business Opportunites, Army Single Face to Industry and the Fort Knox Contracting web sites. No hard copy quotes will be issued. All CONUS Army users are now required to purchase office products through the BPAs. However, Army installations with onsite self service supply store may use this source to obtain Ability One products. To the maximum extent practicable the BPA purchases must be made through the DOD EMall. The Army intends to award sufficient BPAs to ensure adequate delivery coverage consistent with the concept of Army wide BPAs, achieve best value for BPA customers, compliance with the Ability One Program. Vendors are reminded that the RFQ package will be issued sometime in October 2008. Vendors should review Fed Biz Ops, ASFI for future annoucement on the issuance of the RFQ.