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Does
ordering from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors help me
meet my small business purchasing goals? |
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How
does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors compete with
national competitors? |
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What
do I need to do to receive the GSA pricing on office supplies
& furniture? |
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How
do I get set up with AAA Business Supplies & Interiors? |
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What different methods can I use to order? |
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Can I use the GSA Advantage! ordering portal to order from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors? |
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Can I use the DoD EMALL ordering portal to order from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors? |
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Can I use the Army ASFI or Navy NECO systems to order on line from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors? |
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Are there advantages to using
AAA Business Supplies & Interiors eSolution online ordering
vs GSA Advantage or DoD EMALL? |
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Is AAA Business Supplies & Interiors
an authorized JWOD distributor? |
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Can I order
JWOD/Skilcraft/NIB/NISH products on line? |
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Does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors accept the Federal Government
Purchase/SmartPay Card? |
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What
are the advantages of ordering furniture from AAA Business
Supplies & Interiors? |
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Is AAA Business Supplies & Interiors located in a
HUBZone? |
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Does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors offer recycled items? |
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Does
AAA Business Supplies & Interiors pickup laser cartridges
and recycle them? |
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Can I process returns on line? |
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Will I be charged
state and local sales taxes? |
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Does AAA accept orders to
APO/FPO overseas addresses? |
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Does ordering from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors help me meet my small business purchasing goals?
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Yes! Purchasing all your
office supplies, furniture and printing from AAA Business
Supplies & Interiors will help you achieve your Federally
mandated small business support goals.
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How does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors compete with national competitors?
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AAA Business Supplies and Interiors is part of is.group, a cooperative of over 600 independently owned and operated business products dealers/members, with over 950 locations in all 50 states.
is.group is part of Business Products Group International (BPGI), which includes thousands of independently owned dealers across multiple continents with a collective buying power of $12 billion dollars, equivalent to that of any individual national competitor (Office Depot, Staples, Boise Cascade Office Products/Boise Office Solutions, and Corporate Express).
This collective buying power allowed is.group to provide GSA with highly competitive pricing that earned
is.group a GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract award.
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What do I need to do to receive the GSA pricing on office supplies & furniture?
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AAA Business Supplies & Interiors attaches the GSA Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Pricing to all Federal
Government accounts to insure that all Federal Government agencies receive this pricing.
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How do I get set up with AAA Business Supplies & Interiors?
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Click on “Sign Up Form” and provide us with the required information.
Click on “Catalog
Request” if you would like us to send you
catalogs of the items on GSA contract.
Click on “Request an On Line Account” if you would like to place your orders on line through our eSolution web site.
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What different methods can I use to order?
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You can phone, order on-line, e-mail or fax your orders or you can place orders with an outside salesperson.
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Can I use the GSA Advantage! ordering portal to order from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors?
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Yes. Place orders for the contract holder “Independent Stationers”.
These orders will be forwarded to Independent Stationers, who will forward them to AAA Business Supplies & Interiors as an authorized distributor under this contract.
It would be helpful to indicate somewhere on the order to forward the order to AAA as Independent Stationers has more than one authorized distributor in this market.
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Can I use the DoD EMALL ordering portal to order from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors?
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Yes. Place orders for the contract holder “is.group”.
These orders will be forwarded to is.group (Independent Stationers), who will forward them to AAA Business Supplies & Interiors as an authorized distributor under this contract.
It would be helpful to indicate somewhere on the order to forward the order to AAA as is.group has more than one authorized distributor in this market.
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Can I use the Army ASFI or Navy NECO systems to order on line from AAA Business Supplies & Interiors?
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Not at present. Please use either the AAA eSolution site (aaasolutions.com/gsa.htm), GSA Advantage! or DoD
EMALL.
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| Are there advantages to using
AAA Business Supplies & Interiors eSolution online ordering
vs GSA Advantage or DoD EMALL? |
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Yes. The Government ordering portals are not directly linked to our system and therefore only provide government employees with access to about 10,000 of the 65,000 items available directly from our site.
Having access to more items better enables Government
employees to efficiently consolidate orders. In
addition, we believe that ordering through our site,
which is exclusively designed for finding and ordering
office supplies, will prove to be faster and easier than
ordering through Government portals. Our site securely stores SmartPay/Government
Purchasing Card information to make ordering more convenient. |
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eSolution
Key Benefits |
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| Is AAA Business Supplies & Interiors
an authorized JWOD distributor? |
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| Yes. |
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| Can I order JWOD/Skilcraft/NIB/NISH products on line? |
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| Yes. |
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| Does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors accept the Federal Government Purchase/SmartPay
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| Yes. If you provide us with your SmartPay purchase card number, we will attach it directly to your account for automatic use in the future.
This card used to be referred to as an IMPAC card prior to 1998. |
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What are the advantages of ordering furniture from AAA
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is.group, for which AAA Business Supplies & Interiors is an authorized distributor, holds a FSS contract for furniture that provides a number of unique and valuable benefits that are not available from any other GSA approved furniture source. Specifically, it provides government employees with:
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A single competitive source for thousands of GSA tested and approved furniture items from multiple different quality manufacturers.
Most furniture FSSs are limited to just one manufacturer, forcing government workers to research and create multiple orders with multiple vendors.
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Consolidated ordering and consolidated shipment, as well as rapid delivery of all product within 14 days of order.
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Contracted, highly competitive
installation rates.
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A net priced catalog featuring thousands of competitively priced mid market furniture items.
The catalog displays products in an easy-to-use good-better-best layout, helping you choose products that are most appropriate for your needs and budget.
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AAA Business Supplies & Interiors is a full service furniture dealer.
Our dedicated and highly experienced furniture team provides sales consultation, space planning and design, product selection and specification, project management and installation support.
We also offer our clients complete ergonomic assessments and solutions, an extensive selection of evaluation chairs to help employees select the proper chair for their needs and an in stock program that can deliver thousands of additional furniture items within 3-5 days.
Please click on this Furniture link
to see additional furniture lines and services available to you. |
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Is AAA Business Supplies & Interiors located in a
HUBZone?
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Yes, but we are not HUBZone certified.
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| Does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors offer recycled items? |
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| Yes, we offer an extensive selection of recycled items.
These items are all identified on the AAA eSolution on-line ordering site with a recycled symbol. |
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Does AAA Business Supplies & Interiors pick up laser
cartridges and recycle them? |
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Yes. Simply leave them at the place where we normally
make deliveries, with a "Recycling
for AAA" note attached to them. |
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Can I process returns on line?
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Yes. Click on Order
On-Line, and click on the Return Authorization
Form.
If you are already in eSolution, click on the Home page and click on the Returns button.
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Will I be charged state and local sales
taxes?
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No. Federal government accounts are exempt from paying sales tax.
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Does AAA accept orders to APO/FPO overseas addresses?
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Yes. These orders will be mailed via the United States Postal Service (USPS) as United Parcel (UPS) does not deliver to these addresses.
Orders may take up to 2 weeks to arrive. These deliveries are registered and we request a confirmation of delivery.
Freight is charged on USPS orders. Please note that certain products may not be available for mailing.
Please e-mail these orders to
apo-fpoorders@aaasolutions.com as they require special handling.
Please indicate the following in your e-mail:
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The complete APO-FPO address. If you have a U.S. consolidation point to which you wish us to send the product, especially
if it is not shippable by the
USPS, please provide the consolidation shipping address, your Transportation Account Code
(TAC) and your Transportation Control Number (TCN). We will UPS the product to this shipping point at no charge.
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The Purchase card information, including the billing address for the owner of the card.
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The item numbers and quantities desired.
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