GPO Facing Formidable Challenges
Though in his JCP testimony Cooper aired his concerns with this—small businesses lack the staff to sell to individual agencies, so large printers with government sales forces will get all the work—he is now trying to look at it from all sides. For example, he says, if you are at a military base in Oklahoma and you have a $1,000 job, what's more practical, going to a local printer or through the GPO bid system?
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.
