FT KNOX CONTRACTORS' OPPORTUNITY DAY -- A multimillion dollar market exists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky that many businesses have not yet discovered. It's a market that can be "golden" once businesses learn how to access it. This unique market is Fort Knox. Each year, Ft. Knox awards large and small businesses more than $100 million in contracts for everything from construction jobs to paper towels. The problem is, many Kentucky businesses are missing out on these contracts simply because they do not know how to market themselves to Ft. Knox or how Ft. Knox's procurement system works. As a result, the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development has joined with Fort Knox, the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Kentucky Procurement Assistance Program, the Office of U.S. Congressman Ron Lewis, Elizabethtown Small Business Development Center, and the U.S. Department of Defense to present Fort Knox Contracting Opportunities Day. This conference will be held Monday, April 12, from 8:15 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., E.S.T at the Leaders Club, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. The Fort Knox Contracting Opportunities Day offers attendees the opportunity to meet one-on-one with buyers from Ft. Knox and learn about current bid openings. They'll also can met with other buyers from more federal and state agencies and discover new ways to market their business to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, General Services Administration, Army Air Force Exchange Service, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and others. Various information booths will be open and many programs explained. Attendees can also take advantage of the workshops on doing business with Ft. Knox, a roundtable of experts from Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, GSA, Non Appropriated Funds and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Other workshop topics include how to target Defense and other Government Contracting Opportunities for Kentucky companies and a special workshop to provide information on the small business programs design to help small business and other companies tosell to government agencies. Registration fees for the Fort Knox Contracting Opportunities Day are $25 per person. To register, call the Elizabethtown Small Business Development Center at (502) 765-6737. Posted 03/02/99 (W-SN303770).

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