The costs that GSA Contractors will need to incur to maintain participation with their GSA Contract(s) will be in thousands of dollars. Depending on the number of products and which categories they fall into, the costs will go up from there. This places a strenuous burden on small businesses, while putting little strain on large companies. Therefore, this is going to have a large impact on the small businesses and set-aside companies that pursue business in the federal market. On the flip-side, the federal governments ability to locate and procure from set-aside companies will diminish shortly after the UPC requirement takes full effect. Small Businesses will, in effect, be choked out of certain GSA Schedules because of the cost requirements of the UPC Code requirement.
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