How to Do Business with Treasury
Part II: Purchasing Practices
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Commonly-used office supplies, office furniture
and furnishings and office machines are usually obtained from mandatory
sources or through Federal Supply Schedule Contract sources, as appropriate.
Other purchases may be made by placing an order through the use of a
government purchase card for micro-purchases, issuing a purchase order
under simplified acquisition procedures, or award of a formal contract
pursuant to sealed bidding or negotiation procedures.
After the consideration of required sources (see FAR Part 8), the contracting
officer is faced with a major choice: the use of a pre-existing
contract vehicle or open market procedures. One widely used pre-existing
contract vehicle is the GSA Federal Supply Schedule. Here is a
diagram of the major choice (please note that both choices have small
business opportunities):
| Pre-existing
contract vehicle |
OR |
Open
market procurement |
For example, the contracting officer may consider
the GSA Federal Supply Schedule to meet the requirement by placing
a task or delivery order against a GSA schedule contract; in order
to be small business friendly, we consider small businesses of
all types that are on the GSA Schedule. This same approach
may also be used for other pre-existing vehicles such as Treasurywide
or Governmentwide contracts.
Therefore, in this example, if the products or services that
your firms provide is available via the GSA Federal Supply Schedule,
please consider contacting GSA to learn how to become a schedule
holder.
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At this point, the contracting officer follows
the procedures at FAR 19 and SBA Procedural Notice 8000-553; this
provides an order of consideration:
1) 8(a) or 1) HUBZone;
2) Small Business Set-Aside; and
3) Full and Open Competition. |
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Updated September 3, 2002 |
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