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Recent News

Air Force BPA

May 27th 2008, Stephens Office Supply was one of several companies awarded the Air Force BPA contract to provide Office Supplies to all Air Force commands and contractors eligible purchase on GSA schedules.  This contract - available on DoD EMall - is available only through the Air Force BPA corridor.   Although you will be able to find us under the Army BPA, MILSTRIP, GSA BPA, Photographic, Open Market catagories, however, to receive the GSA BPA pricing - you must go to the Air Forct BPA Corridor.  This contract allows Military users to obligate funds for Office Supplies using their government credit card.  The delay for orders from DoD EMall to Stephens is routinely a couple of hours.   Stephens will routinely ship your orders within 1 business day from the closest of our 65 warehousing locations around the country.

 

 

GSA BPA: 

Stephens Office Supply was one of 10 companies awarded the GSA BPA contract to provide Office Supplies to all Government Agencies eligible purchase on GSA schedules.  This contract - available on DoD EMall - is available only through the FSSI corridor.   Although you will be able to find us under the Army BPA, Photographic, and Open Market catagories, however, to receive the GSA BPA pricing - you must go to the FSSI Corridor.  This contract allows Military users to obligate funds for Office Supplies using their government credit card.  The delay for orders from DoD EMall to Stephens is routinely a couple of hours.   Stephens will routinely ship your orders within 1 business day from the closest of our 65 warehousing locations around the country.

 

Proud Achievements

MILSTRIP: 

Stephens Office Supply was awarded a MILSTRIP contract in April 2006.  This contract - available on DoD EMall - is available only through the All of EMall corridor.  This contract allows Military users to obligate MILSTRIP funds for Office Supplies.  The delay for orders from DoD EMall to Stephens is routinely several hours, and although the EMall provides a default delivery date of 60 days ARO.  Stephens, will routinely ship your orders within 1 business day from the closest of our 65 warehousing locations around the country.

 

Washington D.C.

Stephens opened a local office in the Washington D.C. Office in April 2006.  Local contact numbers can be found on our Contact Us page.

 

ARMY wide BPA -  BPA Contract

In April 2004, the Army BPA was recinded and re-awarded to only small businesses - of which Stephens Office Supply was again selected.  All orders for Office Supplies for the U.S. Army are to be entered and supported through the DoD EMALL.  The DoD EMALL ordering site can be found at https://emall.prod6.dodonline.net/scripts/EMLearn.asp.  The orders are generated from the DoD EMALL, and submitted to Stephens Office Supply via encrypted e-mail for processing.

 

Internet Sales

In May 2003 Stephens Office Supply updated our Internet ordering system. 

  • This new system is now integrated into our normal purchasing system, and we are able to give the customer the discounts they were never able to see on our old internet system.  This new system allows the users to:

    • Place an order by:

      • entering the part number of the item.

      • choosing from items they have purchased before.

      • browsing the catalog.

      • searching the catalog by keyword or part number.

      • searching by the kind of printer / fax / copier they own.

    • Save an order they have developed in the system in order to place the order at a later date.

    • Create a listing of favorite items and include notations about those items.

    • Send orders to multiple shipping addresses.

    • Configure an automated workflow so that one person can generate the orders, the orders can be approved by an approving official and then paid for by a credit card holder.

  • While this system does not require the user to enter their credit card number on-line, (we do have the capability to securely capture credit card information) we utilize the credit information already set up for them when the order is processed.   If the customer is new to Stephens, we request that when they submit their order, they fill out our form to fax their credit card information to us - or submit their credit card information on-line . 

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Getting Started

Stephens Office Supply was founded in 1984 in the heart of Poquoson, Virginia.  We have expanded to North Carolina, Texas, and California, and Washington D.C.    We are a small Woman Owned company that proudly  supports our local schools, local sports teams, and other organizations while providing services and supplies to our local governments, military installations, and businesses.  

 

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GSA Contract

In February 2001, we received a GSA contract (#GS-14F-0019L) for tens of thousands of office supplies, and offer GSA contract pricing on Audio/Visual and Furniture sales as well.  We represent several Furniture and A/V vendors including HON, Design Options,  Global, Thrasher, and Panasonic, just to name a few.    

 

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Awards

Stephens has been awarded several awards of which we are proud of.  

  • Outstanding rating from JWOD 2002 through 2007.

  • Preferred Customer Program certification 2004 - Lackland AFB.

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Customer Relations

By providing our Government and Military customers with outstanding service - (so much so that they continue our relationship  when they transfer overseas), and by utilizing the Internet, our company now provides office supplies to our customers in locations such as Puerto Rico, Iceland, Thailand, Japan, Korea and other countries well outside our local area.    We believe that our company has grown and flourished due to our personalized, professional service.  We guarantee that we will find the products or services you are looking for or refer you to someone who can provide them for you.   We value your business and our relationship and want to provide you with the products you need to operate your office in the most cost efficient, timely matter possible. 

 

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