GPO Facing Formidable Challenges
"Is that the best use of your time as a contracting officer?" he asks.
PIA is still discussing this issue, he adds. One concern is that agencies will continually send work to a single printer without looking around for the best price.
But even so, he says, things will be no worse for small, remote printers under the OMB plan.
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.