{"id":16967,"date":"2016-09-22T10:18:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=16967"},"modified":"2016-09-22T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:18:56","slug":"killion-to-hold-costars-workshop-oct-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=16967","title":{"rendered":"Killion to hold COSTARS workshop, Oct. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1816\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1816\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1816\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/SenTomKillion-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9)\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Tom Killion (R-9)<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senator Tom Killion (R-9) and Senator Tom McGarrigle (R 26) will host two free COSTARS Workshops on Thursday, October 6 to provide information for local companies on state and local bidding opportunities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The first workshop will be hosted at 10 a.m. by the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry, located at1600 Paoli Pike in Malvern.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A second event at 1:30 p.m. will be held at the Delaware County Chamber of Commerce, located at 1001 Baltimore Pike, Suite 9 LL (lower level) in Springfield.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">COSTARS is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania\u2019s cooperative purchasing program, administered by the PA Department of General Services.\u00a0 It allows COSTARS members, including local governments, public authorities, non-profit educational and health entities, school districts, and fire and rescue companies to purchase products and services from businesses through a state contract established by the PA Department of General Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bruce Beardsley, Marketing Manager for DGS, will talk to suppliers and potential suppliers about the benefits of this procurement program, marketing tips, and contract opportunities and be available for question and answer following the presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">To register for this event, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/senatorkillion.com\/costars-event\/\"><span class=\"s2\">senatorkillion.com\/costars-event\/<\/span><\/a> or contact Cara Laudenslager at <a href=\"mailto:claudenslager@pasen.gov\"><span class=\"s2\">claudenslager@pasen.gov<\/span><\/a> or 717-787-4712.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Killion (R-9) and Senator Tom McGarrigle (R 26) will host two free COSTARS Workshops on Thursday, October 6 to provide information for local companies on state and local bidding opportunities.\u00a0 The first workshop will be hosted at 10 a.m. by the Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry, located at1600 Paoli Pike in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7953,7954],"class_list":["post-16967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-costars","tag-state-sen-tom-killion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16968,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16967\/revisions\/16968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}