April 28, 2011 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time Océ Business Services and Client Verizon Wireless Win “Best Use of Outsourcing” Award at the 15th Annual Outsourcing Excellence Awards NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Océ Business Services, a leader in document process management services and technology, today announced that Outsourcing Center has presented Océ and its client Verizon Wireless…

This post is a brief wrap-up (my “personal take”, if you will) of the IRgA Convention that ended at 4:00 pm on Thursday April 28th. Not surprisingly, the mood of conventioneers was quite reserved. 2008, 2009 and 2010 were not good years for most reprographers, and, likewise, 2011, for most, has not started out on…

Article found on Southeast Construction News: Work on the Caribbean’s Largest Resort Gets Under Way March 30, 2011 Ground was broken in February on Baha Mar, a 1,000-acre resort-casino at the city of Nassau on New Providence Island. When completed in 2014, it will encompass 3,500 rooms in six hotels and a number of condominium…

Article found on enr.construction.com …… Parsons-AECOM Said To Win PM Role on $11-Billion Emirates’ Railway Network Publication Date: 4/15/2011
 Author: Debra K. Rubin
 Description: The Abu Dhabi-based owner of a planned $11-billion railway network across the United Arab Emirates has selected a Parsons Corp.-AECOM joint venture as the project’s program manager, say both company sources…

To the Officers and Directors if the IRgA: How about developing a document that can be used by IRgA members (if not all reprographers) to educate “government purchasing” agents, who prepare ITBs and RFPs for reprographics services, how to “call out” reprographics services? A “standard procedure” (or maybe it should be referred to as a…

American Reprographics sell signals Per post on APRIL 23, 2011 – Technical factors signal a sell on American Reprographics (ARC) and a deletion from the Barchart Van Meerten Speculative portfolio.

Technical Factors: 1 – 60% Barchart short term technical sell signal 2 – Trend Spotter sell signal 3 – Trading below the 20 and 50 day…

Closing date for bids was March 22, 2011 Vendors who submitted bids: · Cole · BPS (an ARC division) · BPX · Copy Rite Apparently, Cole was the “low bidder”. I’ve posted a copy of the “bid abstract” at this Internet address (click-on link): https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B81al4kFAU9JZGRjZGI4YWEtZTA0ZC00ZjUxLTgzZTctYzM5NTI5OGI5MGZi&hl=en&authkey=CKTXq8cF Joel’s comments: In my opinion, “someone” needs to get some…

Found on AGC’s web-site: (see “Joel’s comments” at the end of the article) SIMONSON SAYS: Economists Paint Slightly Brighter Picture for Overall Economy and Construction April 05, 2011 Economists Lynn Reaser and Ken Simonson presented a partly sunny forecast at the Aon Economic Issues luncheon on Thursday, March 24. But the scene they painted had…

According to an article dated April 19, 2011 on ENR Southeast……… Florida Contracts Fall 50% in February In February, for the second month in a row, the value of Florida’s new construction contracts was 50% below the same period of a year ago, according to the latest information from McGraw-Hill Construction, the publisher of ENR…

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