Rapid Registration Gives Companies First One-Step, One-Form Access to State and Local Govt. Agencies' $1 Trillion Procurement Pie.FALLS CHURCH Falls Church, independent city (1990 pop. 9,578), NE Va., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; inc. as a town 1875, as a city 1948. There is diverse light manufacturing, including telecommunications equipment. , Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 10, 1999-- Imagine the sheer volume of paperwork faced by a company that wants to become a vendor to each of the nation's state, county and local government agencies which annually give out $1 trillion in contracts for private sector goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . Now Rapid Registration aims to end that paper nightmare forever. Getting a piece of the government pie will be as easy as pie with Rapid Registration's web site The site's first-ever, one-step, one-form registration service lets any size business register to be on the procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. lists of state and local agencies, colleges and universities, hospitals, airports and more for only $10 per agency. Rapid Registration's Falls Church, VA-based web service is available nationwide and aims to have its constantly expanding database eventually cover all 80,000 state and local agencies. "Chances are, whatever you sell, the government buys it. Government is one of the largest consumers in the world. State and local governments annually spend $100 billion more than the Federal government, making them a potential business goldmine," says Rapid Registration president Stephen Coakley. "We built our consulting business on government contracts, so we know first-hand how hard it was to even find out how to get the registration forms." "You can't receive government Requests For Proposals (RFPs) until you register as a vendor," Coakley notes. "Before Rapid Registration the process could take weeks, or even months. Opportunities were missed in the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile !" Coakley adds. Rapid Registration also refers clients to free and paid technical assistance with bid preparation or proposal writing. Rapid Registration clients range from one-person operations seeking freelance work freelance work free n → freiberufliche Arbeit f to large firms overwhelmed o·ver·whelm tr.v. o·ver·whelmed, o·ver·whelm·ing, o·ver·whelms 1. To surge over and submerge; engulf: waves overwhelming the rocky shoreline. 2. a. with the bureaucratic bu·reau·crat n. 1. An official of a bureaucracy. 2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure. bu morass of paperwork required to get on government bid lists. Companies can register with just one agency, with any combination of agencies or locations, or request a customized list such as all the school boards or hospitals in the Northeast. |
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