424110: Printing and Writing Paper Merchant Wholesalers

This code is bought mostly through a few large buyers and many small orders. The record shows 11,339 awards since FY2001 totaling $157.31M, but the median award is only $250. One VA CMOP Bedford award of $59.02M accounts for much of that total. The biggest buyers by count are the Federal Prison System (834 awards), DLA Troop Support Medical Supply (636), and GSA's Special Order center (3,537). The notice does not say how these buyers choose vendors or what each order involved. Across the record, 62 distinct vendors won awards.

For competition, the set-aside field matters most. About 10,742 awards are marked NONE, meaning no set-aside is recorded, and 330 have no set-aside value recorded. Only 231 are marked SBA, with smaller counts for RSB, 8AN, BI, SDVOSBC, and HZC. Unrestricted awards dominate the record, so open competition is the likely norm, but the notice does not say how many bids each award drew. A firm weighing this code should expect many small orders from broad buyers and a few large ones that are harder to predict.

For the next year, the notice shows no active notices and no contracts ending within 12 months, with $0 at stake. That means no known recompete or open solicitation appears in this data. It does not say whether buyers plan new requirements. Firms should watch for new notices from the top buyers listed above, especially DLA Troop Support and the Federal Prison System, since they have the most recorded activity. The notice does not give forecast data, so any move toward this code should rest on that outside monitoring.