Which agencies use Purchase Orders?

Purchase orders are not the topic of discussion for most folks chasing work in the federal sector. Why? Most believe the spending on these buys is trivial and insignificant.In the scheme of things, I guess $18 billion dollars in obligations could be considered trivial, or not! Purchase Orders are one of two standalone award instruments used by federal agencies, and the combined spending accounts for close to half of obligations reported in FPDS-NG.

We've restarted our education series 'Getting PO'd by Uncle Sam!' to bring attention to the ways agencies buy that don't get the headlines. We're dropping a few of the segments in the SCIIF blog for anyone to access and the rest will be in our LaunchPad? Education & Training portal for our Wingman SOARR?, GovCon Geek Squad? and Ethical Stalking for Government Contractors? participants. We hope you find this content useful. Enjoy!

Go-To-Guy Timberlake, SCIIF