The Industrial Products and Services category team has been hard at work on a number of initiatives.  Highlights of recent accomplishments and upcoming activities include:

Actions Accomplished in Prior 30 Days

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On Thursday, June 19, 2014, the GSA JanSan Team published the Q&As from the Requisition Channel Industry Day as well as Q&As received in response to the Draft Requisition Channel RFQ that was published in February 2014.  Numerous comments were received regarding the formulation of the various categories within the market basket.  To address those comments, the GSA JanSan Team has regrouped the categories, four of them to match the Purchasing Channel categories and a fifth to include personal hygiene. 

The new categories are as follows:

GSA has published its answers to questions submitted by commercial sector participants during its virtual Industry Day, held in February 2014. This event was hosted by GSA, and covered the agency’s commodity consolidation strategy, and the planned Requisition Channels for Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) and Janitorial & Sanitation (JanSan) strategically sourced products.