GACO gets $100,000 grant to help secure contracts
Photo: Deborah S. Wojcik, director of the Government Agency Coordination Office, and Dr. Angelo Armenti, Jr., president of California University of Pennsylvania, with a check from the Sarah Scaife Foundation.
Cal U receives $100,000 grant to help area businesses secure government contracts
CALIFORNIA – The Government Agency Coordination Office (GACO) at California University of Pennsylvania has received a $100,000 grant from the Sarah Scaife Foundation.
GACO is a procurement technical assistance center, which provides advice, assistance and support to businesses interested in selling their products and services to the government. The office also provides government contract training through seminars, workshops and its annual procurement fair.
The grant, which runs through Aug. 31, 2012, will allow GACO to assist area businesses with federal, state, local and corporate contracting and subcontracting.
“We have been very fortunate for the support the Sarah Scaife Foundation has provided our GACO program,” said Cal U President Angelo Armenti, Jr. “Their generosity in supporting our contracting assistance efforts has helped businesses in western Pennsylvania obtain 33,406 contracts totaling nearly $2.49 billion since 1985.”
“For 26 years the GACO staff has helped many businesses become successful government contractors,” GACO director Deborah S. Wojcik said. “The tremendous partnership we have with the Sarah Scaife Foundation has made this possible. We continue to educate businesses in government contracting procedures, eBusiness processes, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and the new programs being implemented by the government. “
GACO’s office is located at Cal U’s main campus, with satellite offices in Pittsburgh and at Slippery Rock University. For more information about GACO, call Wojcik at 724-938-5881 or go online to www.calu.edu/business-community.