<strong>The Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiatives (FSSI), National Information Technology Commodity Program (NITCP), and OASIS programs represent the Death of Small Business Federal Contracting in America, and are poised to greatly damage the US economy through drastic drastic job loss, and cannibalization of the tax basis. The unintended consequences of these programs have already impacted over 500 small businesses… and counting</strong>.
For many years, federal contracting revenues have represented the life-blood of small and socio economically disadvantaged businesses nationally. This message is intended to sound the alarm, and notify the American public that the <strong>GSA Federal Strategic Sourcing Initiative (FSSI), NITCP, OASIS, and any future strategic sourcing implementation, though intended as cost-saving measures, will in fact result in dramatic unintended consequences which will be disastrous to all Federal Contractors, both large and small</strong>.
<strong>The GSA Pilot FSSI Program: Toxic to Small Business Federal Contractors:</strong>
GSA is responsible for the management of the majority of federal supply purchases. GSA’s initial Pilot FSSI Program for Schedule 75 (Office Supplies) was intended to save money for the government. GSA estimated that the government saved $16 million from June 2010 to August 2011. Under this FSSI, GSA entered into agreements with only 15 vendors, whereas previously, in FY 2010, there were 569 vendors on Schedule 75. This shrinkage of the majority of Schedule 75 contractors caused the loss of more than 70 million dollars in Federal contractor revenues. These Federal contractors are now struggling to survive. This GSA pilot FSSI program is a harbinger of what is to come if GSA is successful in implementing the FSSI program to Schedules 70, 36, 71, and to all government purchases of goods and services across all government agencies. This will be catastrophic to the vast majority of Federal Contractors.
<strong>The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report (Dec 20, 2011) on GSA FSSI,</strong> <strong>Failed to Recognize the Negative Impact on Job Loss and the Health of the US Economy:</strong>
It is unfortunate that the GAO report on FSSI, which Congress relied upon to confirm the Schedule 75 initial savings of $16 million, was flawed. The GAO report failed to consider the offsetting damage caused by the shrinkage and displacement of a significant number of small business federal contractors including minority, women-owned, and disabled veterans. The financial distress for these small businesses and resulting job loss for their employee’s, is the cause of much pain and suffering which is adversely impacting our economy by contributing to small business failure, bankruptcies, unemployment, mortgage defaults, foreclosures, and the drop in housing prices.
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Together we can help avoid the proliferation of strategic sourcing in the federal public market, and the potential impacts of these initiatives to over 6000 contractors (estimated job losses, resulting from these programs, exceeds 80,000 American workers).
It is our hope that you will support this effort based upon the fact that our economy is in a precarious state, and massive unintended job losses of this nature will wreak havoc on our ability to stabilize and rebuild. America has a vested interest in the success of our cause.
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GSA program funnels millions to 15 vendors while causing mass layoffs at hundreds of other businesses.
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