Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTAC

Helping Utah companies secure military and government contracts.

Helping Utah companies secure military and government contracts. Assisted with more than $100M in contracts and 2,719 jobs for Utah companies in 2006.

Utah Procurement Technical Assistance Centers help small businesses with all phases of Government contracting (federal, state, and local). Counselors provide one-on-one and group instruction that helps clients identify contracting opportunities, which can create growth of market share and revenues, for them. The government is an excellent customer because they generally purchase in large quantities and pay their bills on time.

PTAC is an important part of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) with nine offices throughout the state to assist you. There are specific keys available from your PTAC office as follows:

• Bid match software to find bid opportunities

• One-on-one counseling • Workshops and Conferences • Registration Assistance (Duns, CCR,

ORCA) • Networking facilitation • Contracting Partnerships -Prime / Sub

-Mentor / Protégé -Teaming Agreements - 8(a) / Hub Zone Opportunities • Bid Proposals (response to an RFP) • Product Specifications / Standards • Procurement Histories / Pricing Data • GSA Assistance

Success Story / Highlight:

• PTAC recently pared up two prospective businesses - Peterson, Inc. (Ogden) and Pilkington Metal Finishing (Salt Lake City) - followed by a tour of Pilkington’s facilities. The following day Pilkington

2006 Procurement Symposium held at SouthTowne Expo Center saw 400 attendees learn how to sell to the Government and Military.

GOED Executive Director Jason Perry meets with Mr. Frederic De Pryck, European Representative for the State of Utah, GOED at 2006 Procurement Symposium.

PROCUREMENT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTERS (PTAC)

Using $400K from the State of Utah and $300K from the Department of Defense, PTAC assisted Utah small businesses with $136,000,000 of new contracts, thereby creating/retaining 2,719 jobs for Utah residents.

met at Petersen’s Ogden facility and brought back the first group of parts to process. Pilkington expects a mutually beneficial relationship, thanks to PTAC. Pilkington has invoiced Petersen a total of $5,164.20 in the first eight-week period. • Fort Duchesne (UT) based Uinta River Technology (URT), LLC, a tribally-owned 8(a) Information technology company involved in the digitization of records and data entry, recently signed a one-year Teaming Agreement with HyperNet Solutions, Inc. (HNSI), headquartered in Del City,

Oklahoma. HNSI specializes in infrastructure design and support, custom web portal application and development that compliment URT’s digitizing background. “This agreement will allow the two companies to work together in pursuing government contracts with the Department of Defense and other federal agencies” said Larry

Blackhair, Business Development Manager for URT.

Michelle Hoang, President of HNSI, said “we are looking to build a longterm relationship with URT to go after Federal Government contracts in IT integrated system and support to include help desk and call center support, custom application development; security support for Home Land Security; and web portal development.”

Chuck Spence, Deputy Director for the Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), a program under the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, who helped facilitate the arrangement, said “this is an excellent opportunity for the two companies to combine their core competencies, and increase their labor categories. Both companies have a successful past performance record that will be attractive to government buyers.”

Uinta River Technology currently has contracts with several federal agencies within and outside of

Utah.

Cumulative $ Amount of Contracts