Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Extends SupplyCore's Pacific Region Contract

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Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:50am EDT

ROCKFORD, Ill., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The Defense Supply Center
Philadelphia (DSCP) has awarded SupplyCore, a leading supply chain management
and logistics services provider, a one-year extension to its Pacific contract.
Under this Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Prime Vendor contract, SupplyCore
provides maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO) supplies and related
services to the U.S. Military and federal civilian agencies in the Pacific
region. 

The MRO Prime Vendor program is a DLA program that improves the way federally
funded agencies purchase MRO materials. The Pacific Prime Vendor contract
(SPM500-05-D-BP06) currently supports U.S. activities deployed in Mainland
Japan, Okinawa, Diego Garcia, and Singapore.

SupplyCore was originally awarded the MRO Prime Vendor Japan contract in 1999,
and was re-awarded an expanded contract in 2005. Once again, SupplyCore had
been re-awarded this contract with a maximum $250,000,000 fixed price with
economic price adjustment for maintenance, repair, and operations prime
vendor. This is an indefinite-delivery/quantity contract.

About SupplyCore
SupplyCore helps the armed services and the DLA improve their supply chain
performance and eliminate waste while providing superior service to the
warfighter. SupplyCore has spent over twenty years streamlining and improving
its technological processes and its supply chain, which translates into more
efficient purchasing for the federal government. 

SupplyCore currently holds the DLA MRO Prime Vendor contracts for the North
Central and Southeastern United States as well as Japan, Okinawa, and CENTCOM
in the Middle East. In addition, SupplyCore has two GSA Schedules: the
Hardware SuperStore Schedule and Facilities Maintenance and Management.
SupplyCore also holds the FASI-G Set-Aside Contract for support of the
land-based tactical and non-tactical vehicle fleets.

SupplyCore has steadily become one of the leading integrated suppliers,
offering integrated logistics, supply chain management, and web-based
procurement services for the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps as
well as other federal government organizations. Founded in 1987, SupplyCore
currently has more than 110 associates with offices and distribution centers
located in Illinois, California, South Carolina, Atlanta, Missouri, Ohio,
Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. 

For more information, visit http://www.supplycore.com.


SOURCE  SupplyCore Inc.

David Hahn, V.P. Corporate Development of SupplyCore Inc., +1-815-964-7940,
david.hahn@supplycore.com
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