NEW GPO Vendor Requirements

NEW GPO Vendor Requirements Deadline
Dec 31, 2007 or No Payments Made

From the Government Printing Office (GPO)
Federal law requires that GPO collect certain information from all of its contractors so that GPO can, in turn, provide contractors with IRS Form 1099 for work performed during each year. To accomplish this, we will require you to provide three specific pieces of information:

1. Your firm’s Employer Identification Number/Tax Identification Number (EIN/TIN)
   
2. Whether or not your firm is subject to backup withholding requirements for IRS
   
3. Whether your firm has a current FORM W-9 on file at GPO

To comply with this mandate, GPO is utilizing its on-line contractor registration system, Contractor Connection. Contractor Connection has recently been updated to make the “EIN/TIN”, “Subject to Backup Withholding”, and “Current W-9 on File at GPO” mandatory fields. We ask that you use Contractor Connection to provide this data as soon as possible.

Please go to http://contractorconnect.gpo.gov/ and click on the “Login” link on the left of the screen. Enter the email address which was initially used during the registration process and password and then click on the “Login” button. On the next screen click on the “Company Information” box on the left of the screen and add or verify your EIN/TIN number, and answer the “Subject to Backup Withholding” and “Current W-9 on File at GPO” questions. We also suggest that you take a moment to verify your address and other pertinent information.

Please note that effective January 1, 2008, contractors that have not provided these three items requested by IRS via Contractor Connection will not meet the eligibility requirements for payment by the Government. Therefore, GPO will not pay contractors for completed work until this information is provided.

To avoid delay in payment for completed work, we urge you to immediately use Contractor Connection to update or verify that GPO has this information on file for your firm. If you need assistance, please contact Frances A. Pritchett, Supervisory Printing Services Specialist at 202-512-0526, or by e-mail at fpritchett@gpo.gov.