Cooperative Purchasing
Cooperative Purchasing Facts:
GSA Schedules offer federal agencies access to millions of state-of-the-art, high-quality commercial supplies and services at volume discount pricing. More than 80 percent of companies on the GSA Schedules are small businesses.
Increased access to GSA Schedules saves tax dollars by providing discounted products and services in addition to significant administrative savings.
SIA led the effort to secure the enactment of the Local Preparedness Acquisition Act (H.R. 3179), extending cooperative purchasing to schedule 84, was signed in to law on June 26, 2008.
Schedule 84 includes law enforcement, firefighting, and security products and services.
Cooperative Purchasing allows for the GSA Administrator to provide states and localities access to certain GSA items. Currently, state and local government entities previously could only purchase goods from GSA Schedule 70, the Information Technology schedule.
State and local entities are not required to use the GSA Schedules – it is a strictly voluntary program. In addition, cooperative purchasing does not require any federal appropriations.
Schedule 84 Products and Services.
Products and services available on GSA Schedule 84 include the following items: locking devices; access control systems, alarm systems, intrusion detection sensors, nuclear, biological, chemical and toxic gas detection sensors, surveillance equipment, firefighting equipment, emergency patient stretchers; fire extinguishing products; fire alarms; electronic locks; emergency door exit systems; perimeter security including fencing and sensors; body armor; gas masks; bomb detection equipment; and distress/signaling devices
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For more information, contact
Don Erickson
SIA’s Director of Government Relations
703-647-8484
derickson@siaonline.org
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