OMB Printing Proposal Is Controversial

Currently, the GPO outsources approximately 75 percent of all of its work through its Printing Procurement Program, which is made up of more than 16,000 printers or nearly 40 percent of the industry. (See page 16 for Top 50 GPO Printers list.) The list includes printers from every state in the nation and more than 70 percent of those printers are small businesses. The jobs that the GPO retains in-house is work that is time-sensitive or cannot be procured for security reasons.