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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Selling to the Government: It Can Be Easy and Lucrative PENSACOLA, FL: PTAC clients were awarded 2,911 government contracts, totaling $380 million dollars during the twelve-month period from October 1, 2005 through September 30, 2006. The contract awards resulted in 3,968 new jobs created by Florida firms.Interested? If you are a Florida business—small, large, for profit or non-profit—you should take advantage of the PTAC Program to obtain government (federal, state or local) contracts. PTAC is the acronym for the Procurement Technical Assistance Center Program and their motto is "Selling to the Government Made Easy". As a specialized program of the Florida Small Business Development Center Network, funded by the Department of Defense, the PTAC Program has six PTAC centers—Pensacola, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Boca Raton and Ft. Myers—with nine Procurement Specialists, located statewide. These Procurement Specialists provide one-on-one counseling sessions free of charge for all Florida business firms, regardless of business entity—sole source, S or C Corporation, Partnership, or Limited Liability Corporation (LLC)—or the business size. Training sessions are presented at various locations at a small charge to cover the cost of presentation materials. The services offered by the PTAC Program, locations of all offices, procurement specialists’ names/telephone numbers, and training events are available at the PTAC website address www.fptac.org. To find out how your business may benefit from the program or any other further information, you are invited to visit the PTAC Program website at www.fptac.org, or call Laura Subel, Program Manager, at 850.473.7806, or Carol Morgan, Program Administrative Assistant, at 850.473.7826. |
The Florida SBDC Network is a statewide partnership between higher education and economic development organizations dedicated to providing emerging and established business owners with assistance enabling overall growth and increased profitability that contributes to the economic prosperity of the state. For more information about the FSBDCN, visit our website at www.FloridaSBDC.com.
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