"Doing Business with Your Local Governments" - 2nd Annual Fete to be
held at Knoxville Convention Center
From the City of Knoxville - Mayor's Office
The East Tennessee Purchasing Association (ETPA) will hold its 2nd
Annual “Doing Business with Your Local Governments” Conference for small
businesses on Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Knoxville Convention Center.
It will be held from 5 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in Ballrooms E, F and G.
The event is free and is aimed at bringing the owners and managers of
small businesses - including minority and women-owned businesses - in
direct contact with representatives from the purchasing departments of
various local governments and agencies.
The ETPA works with numerous local governments including both the City of
Knoxville and Knox County, which are both helping sponsor the conference.
Included among the many other local governments and public agencies that
are supporting the conference are:
- Knoxville’s Community Development Corporation
- The University of Tennessee
- Knoxville Utilities Board
- Knoxville Area Chamber Partnership
- Blount County
- Anderson County
- The City of Chattanooga
- The Knoxville/Knox County Public Building Authority
- The Metropolitan Knoxville Airport Authority and
- Pellissippi State Technical Community College
The event is also designed to make people involved in small businesses
aware of the opportunities to do business with local governments and
provide them with information allowing them to take advantage of those
opportunities.
Attendees, for instance, will be able to learn about current bid
opportunities and procedures used by each entity in procurement among many
other things.
Light hors d’oeuvres will be provided.
Parking for the event will be free at any city garage including the Locust
Street Garage, which is near the Convention Center. Parking is also
available at Knox County’s Dwight Kessel Garage and at other locations
like the World’s Fair Park North Lot.
To attend the “Doing Business with Your Local Governments” Conference
please RSVP by contacting Cindy Akins at KCDC by September 20, 2007.
Ms. Akins can be contacted at 865-403-1107 or by fax at 865-594-8858 or at
her email cakins (at) kcdc.org
Please provide your company’s name, names of your representatives that
will attend, telephone and fax numbers (with area code) and the email
addresses of all the attendees.
