GSA has announced that its Federal Acquisition Service awarded a multiple award schedule contract under the consolidated schedule to provide discounted copiers, copier leasing, maintenance and IT equipment.
In 2007 Cannon opted out of a schedule contract in the face of an inspector general query into whether it was in fact offering the government its best available prices.
The new contract represents an estimated cost avoidance of nearly $95 million over Canon USA’s previous MAS contract and has an estimated contract value of $110 million over five years, GSA said.
"Robust competition and trusted commercial partnerships are critical to the continued success of the program," said the FAS’s acting commissioner, Tyree Varnado.
GSA designed the consolidated schedule as a means for industry to offer a more diverse service and product base under a single schedules contract, rather than managing numerous separate schedule contracts.
