GPO Facing Formidable Challenges
Nothing but fuzzy math, counters GPO. Agencies that bypass GPO will still have to pay people to handle procurement. Their salaries will take the place of GPO's fees. And agency procurement programs will not be sophisticated enough to maintain the same level of competition among outside printers that GPO achieves. Nor will these agencies benefit from the economies of scale of GPO's term contracts. Thus, GPO insists, the OMB plan will greatly increase taxpayer costs. Others agree.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
