e-LYNXX’ Gindlesperger Rallies Support for Public Printer’s Outsourcing Pitch

Printing jobs valued at more than $358 million were awarded in 2010 by GPO on behalf of the Executive Office of the President, Congress the Supreme Court, executive departments and independent federal agencies. Boarman, in his comments, said that work valued at many times that amount could and should be channeled through GPO to an industry that has historically produced 75+ percent of GPO’s printing (with the remaining portion produced by GPO’s own printing shop). Gindlesperger said the difficulty is that federal agencies have pulled printing in-house rather than sending it to GPO under the requirements of Title 44 of the U.S. Code. That code states that all federal agencies are to use the GPO to obtain their printing.