Big contracts, small vendors

MRFS, FirstSource update

      Two $2 billion-plus federal multiple-award contracts with set-asides for small businesses are moving forward with recent developments.

      One is the General Services Administration’s Maintenance Repair Facility Supplies (MRFS) acquisition vehicle and the other is the Homeland Security Dept.’s FirstSource III opportunity.

MRFS Supplies

      The GSA recently awarded Blanket Purchase Agreements on the “MRFS Purchasing Channel” to 26 small businesses and four other vendors. The BPAs are for government buys of maintenance, repair, janitorial and sanitation products.

      The MRFS combines GSA’s Maintenance, Repair and Operations (MRO) and Janitorial and Sanitation (JanSan) multiple-award contracts into a single multiple-award MRFS contract.

      The government currently spends about $2.8 billion a year on MRFS supplies.

      GSA officials said the consolidation into the single MRFS contract makes things more convenient for buyers and contractors. The deal also meets the government’s goals for small and small disadvantaged business contracting.

      Here are the 26 firms awarded MRFS contracts:

Access Products Inc. (dba Imaging Systems)
American Sanitary Products
Cartridge Savers Inc.
Coronado DC
CPSS
Document Imaging Dimensions
Galaxie
Hardware Inc.
Kipper Tool Co.
KPaul Properties
Lazer Cartridges Plus LLC
Morning Star Industries Inc.
Noble Sales Company Inc.
Office Group
Pacific Ink
Pelican Sales
Premier & Companies
Rite-Kem
Shelby Distributions
SPS Industrial
Sterling Business Machines
Supplies Now
Supply Chimp (Mono Machines)
Wecsys LLC
Wrigglesworth; and
Wright Tool.

FirstSource III

      DHS recently announced it intends to issue a FirstSource III multiple-award contract for IT commodities and related Value-Added Reseller services.

      To date, FirstSource II has generated $2.7 billion in contracts for 41 vendors, including 31 small businesses. That includes $1.2 billion for HUBZone firms and $735 million for EDWOSBs, according to Bloomberg Government.

More Information:
GSA press release: https://bit.ly/2MWk0nt
FBO FirstSource Notice to Industryhttps://bit.ly/2KEjB6l
BGov FirstSource III: https://bit.ly/2YF400c

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