CHANGE ORDER NOTICE JPMC Office Supplies

This is a notice of a time extension for an existing statewide master contract (18-416CMS-BOSS4-P-390) for office supplies in Illinois. The contract provides office supplies on an as-needed basis for state agencies and other eligible entities defined in the original contract. The extension from January 31, 2023 to April 30, 2023 is needed to complete the solicitation process for a new contract. Extending the current contract will allow users to continue leveraging the state's buying power versus making individual small purchases at a higher cost, and will also allow the state to continue using a 100% self-fulfilling Businesses Enterprise Program (BEP) vendor.

This change order is not a competitive solicitation, but rather a notice of the time extension. It is being posted on the Bulletin/BidBuy website for 14 days as required by state regulations. The original contract was awarded through a competitive process, and the change order is necessary due to circumstances that were not reasonably foreseeable at the time the original contract was signed. The change is also germane to the original contract as signed.