Business Matters Weekly - October 3, 2016

Week of: October 3, 2016

Our Mission

JARI will be the collaborative force that enhances all aspects of our region to grow a diverse economy and build vibrant communities.

Linda Thomson, President, JARI, welcomes participants and vendors at the 14th Annual Safety Conference on Tuesday, October 4.

Safety Conference Success!

Debi Balog

Director, Workforce Development

Over 170 individuals completed seven and a half hours of health and safety training and earned 0.75 continuing education credits toward their safety committee and professional certifications.

Sixteen health and safety experts donated their time to offer high-quality workshops on a variety of topics. The information presented will help participants create a safer and healthier work environment.

This year's conference was sponsored in part by Damin Printing, North American Höganäs, KAZA Fire Equipment, Keystone Environmental, Health and Safety, Inc, PHOENIX Rehabilitation and Workplace Health and S. A. Comunale, Inc. In addition, we had several in-kind contributors, including: City of Johnstown Parking Bureau; Galliker's Dairy; Lowe's of Johnstown; Snyder of Berlin; Pennsylvania Highlands Community College.

Many thanks go to the sponsors, speakers, exhibitors and the conference committee for their assistance in making this event a huge success. The next Alleghenies Regional Safety Conference is scheduled for Tuesday, October 3, 2017.

For more information on the Safety Conference and/or the Safety Consortium, please contact Debi Balog at (814) 262-8366 or via e-mail dbalog@jari.com.

Tom Churback from HSE Solutions, gives the opening presentation on engaging employees in safety and how to market an industries safety program.

DLA Announces Changes to Award Identification System

Lenora Leasure

Program Manager, JARI PTAC

The Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 4.16 , Unique Procurement Instrument Identifiers (PIID) has been amended to implement a uniform award identification system referred to as the Procurement Instrument Identification (PIID) in order to standardize procurement transactions across the Federal Government. The new PIID structure will continue to require use of Activity Address Codes (AACs) as the unique identifier for contracting offices for the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), the current fiscal year, instrument type and a four-character serial number. Beginning October 1, 2016, manual purchase order numbers will change from "M" to "P" in the 9th position. Automated purchase orders will continue to use a "V" in the 9th position. Existing contract, purchase order, and delivery order numbers will not change. Additional changes will occur beginning in October 2017.

Please contact us for any of your government contracting assistance needs at (814) 254-4022 or (814) 254-4023 or via email at jariptac@jari.com .