An Excellent Year

Partners In Contracting Corporation Clients had a good year among the 8 Indiana counties that it serves this past year (effective 11/1/04 that is 26 counties). The fiscal calendar year 2003/04 closed on Oct. 31, 2004 with PICC clients securing nearly $72 million in government contracts or subcontracts. This was a considerable increase from the previous year, which produced just under $43 million.

Prime Contract Awards, contracts directly with the government, totaled over $63 million (2573 contracts). The remaining $8 million were subcontract awards (1201 subcontracts).  

Clients in Lake, Porter and La Porte counties saw substantial growth. Their government contracts in Lake County increased from just over $17 million in 2002/03 to nearly $41 million in 2003/04 while La Porte rose from around $1.5 million to just shy of $13 million. Porter County more than doubled their total contracts from $1 million to over $2.2 million.

It is estimated that the employment creation/retention by companies around the portion of the state where the agency works accounted for 2270 jobs. For the three counties of Lake, Porter and La Porte there were approximately 1770 positions positively affected.

In addition to the job creation/retention, the PICC staff assisted with nine State of Indiana Women Owned Business and eight State of Indiana Minority Owned Business Certifications. There is also one 8a SBA certification, still in the review process, that the agency helped with.

Fast Contracting Opportunities with Electronic Bid Match

Help eliminate the exhausting effort involved in the old ways of digging up government contracting opportunities by having them conveniently delivered right to you each and every morning.

Searches are performed by using strategic keywords to identify the information that you desire. The printouts contain the up-to-date contract opportunities and can be delivered to you by email.

The service searches contracting opportunities from:

• Nationally Advertised Procurements from Commerce Business Daily
• DLA Requests for Quotation
• Electronic Date Interchange Announcements
• Selected State and Local RFQ’s
• State of Indiana Solicitations
• International Sales Opportunities

The Electronic Bid Match Service is a cost-effective method of efficiently obtaining the information you need for your government market. This is also an excellent way to explore new markets. The service is free for the first 30 days. After the trial period the annual subscription is $200 paid once a year or $60 paid quarterly.

Once the solicitation is received, the rest of our services here at PICC are available to help you complete the request, prepare for a pre-award survey, and perform under the contract.

Attention Contractors, are you registered with ORCA?

The Online Representations and Certifications Application (ORCA) is an e-Government Internet form. It has been created to replace the old paper based Representations and Certifications (Reps and Certs) process known as Section K.

This process was developed to provide convenience for the individual by creating and maintaining Reps and Certs information online. It is also beneficial for the Contracting Officers who can view records and archives with ease.

If the solicitation that you are responding to requires an active registration in CCR you must be registered in ORCA.

ORCA registration can be done at www.bpn.gov by clicking on the “Online Reps and Certs Application” or by contacting the nearest Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC).