Imaging Equipment Committee July 20, 2015

Agenda Guest Speakers: FSSI Print Management BPA Jim Concannon, Ashley Cameron and Steve Lozada Transactional Data Reporting Competitive Pricing Initiative Counterfeit/Gray Market Items Evergreen Contracts Section 508 Comments Upcoming Events & Training

GSA’s FSSI Print Management BPA Jim Concannon, Ashley Cameron and Steve Lozada

Transactional Data Proposed rule published March 4 1. Contract or BPA Number 7. Unit Measure (each, hour, case, lot) 2. Order Number/Procurement Instrument Identifier (PIID) 8. Quantity of Item Sold 3. Non Federal Entity, if applicable 9. Universal Product Code (UPC), if applicable 4. Description of Deliverable 10. Price Paid per Unit 5. Manufacturer Name 11. Total Price 6. Manufacturer Part Number   Proposed rule published March 4 Contractors to report transactional data from orders and prices paid by ordering activities FSS contract and GSA non-FSS contract orders (not VA) Report transactional data at the order and BPA level to GSA monthly

Transaction Data Member Survey Approx 70 member company responses Small, medium and large businesses 98% GSA Schedule contractors 42% have GWACs through GSA One quarter small business Based on survey estimated total cost to implement transactional data is $814,700,534—30 times GSA’s estimate of $24 million

Transactional Data- Action Items Presented Survey results and expressed industry concerns to GSA in public hearing and in public comments Testified before Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce Testimony: http://thecgp.org/images/Transactional-Data-Written-Testimony_Coalition1.pdf Watch the hearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTDBVGFGwA Mythbuster’s dialogue with OFPP’s Matthew Blum on July 14

Competitive Pricing Initiative GSA initiative to reduce price variability on Schedules Using horizontal pricing tool that “flags” supplies where an awarded price greatly exceeds pricing for identical items GSA notifying Schedule holders with higher pricing and offering opportunity to justify current price or reduce pricing GSA intent for response to be voluntary, though vendors report mandatory

Competitive Pricing Initiative (cont.) According to GSA, FAS began rolling out the Competitive Pricing Initiative to all product-based schedules in late May 2015. ~4.5M items identified for review as of June 10.

Counterfeit/Gray Market Items Addressing in context of GSA’s Competitive Pricing Initiative (CPI) Counterfeit/gray market item pricing impact on CPI GSA Price Distribution of Imation 16GB Flash Drive Members are concerned that the low price items—which form the base for the pricing review—may be distorting the market as the items may be grey market or from unauthorized resellers (unauthorized resellers raise significant questions regarding pricing, fair competition, contract compliance (TAA) and cyber security)

Counterfeit/Gray Market Action Items Preparing letter to GSA expressing industry concerns Items from unauthorized resellers or from gray market raise significant questions regarding pricing, fair competition, contract compliance (TAA) and cyber security Cyber Acquisition forum in September with GSA and DoD

Evergreen Contracts Coalition Evergreen WG submitted white paper to FAS Deputy Commissioner. Recommended: Streamlined proposal submission and review process for long time FSS contractors FSS language addressing continuation of performance of BPAs and orders beyond the basic contract term Office of Acquisition Management developing policy solution Coalition requested opportunity for industry comment

Section 508 NPRM Accessibility standards for ICT (Information and Communication Technology) published Feb 27 Applies to ICT developed, procured, or used by Federal agencies Conformance through VPAT Submitted comments to US Access Board on behalf of committee (May 28) Encouraged continued use of VPAT vs GPAT Posted on Coalition Policy Documents page at http://thecgp.org/images/Section-508-Comments_final.pdf

Upcoming Events & Training Webinar- Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces: What Commercial Service and Product Companies Need to Know July 23 | 12:00pm-1:00pm Board of Advisors Meeting July 30 | 8:00am-11:00am GDIT MAS Basic Training August 12 | 7:30am-4:30pm Dentons GSA Schedule Contracting for In-house Counsel Training August 13 | 7:30am-4:30pm Dentons 3rd Annual Joseph Caggiano Memorial Golf Tournament August 26 | Whiskey Creek (Ijamsville, MD)

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