JLab welcomes JLWS Enterprises as new mentor-protégé vendor

Early in March, JLWS Enterprises, Inc., a small, disadvantaged, veteran-owned business became Jefferson Lab’s first mentor-protégé vendor under the new Department of Energy/Jefferson Science Associates, LLC contract, according to Danny L. Lloyd, JLab’s Small Business Program Manager.

The DOE mentor-protégé program is designed for DOE prime contractors (like JLab) to mentor and guide woman- and minority-owned businesses – so that they become new small- and disadvantaged-business resources within the Department of Energy and larger government-vendor communities. During the three-year contract JLWS has with Jefferson Lab, the Lab will mentor JLWS and promote the growing company within DOE and to other government contractors. JLWS has been a vendor here for about one year – providing a variety of office products including copier and printer toner cartridges, according to Lloyd. Now, JLWS is JLab's primary supplier for all office supplies, including recycled-product-content office supplies, furniture, recycled toner cartridges and other recycled products.

JLWS President Kevin Watson, a disabled Vietnam-era veteran, set up an informational table in the CEBAF Center lobby on March 12, to hand out his product catalogue and familiarize JLab staff with his company’s capabilities. Extra copies of the JLWS office product solutions catalogue are available for pick up in the CEBAF Center lobby, by doorway L103B. Orders may be put in through webstock.

Watson cites the benefits of doing business with JLWS as: providing the personalized customer service you expect from a small business with the capabilities and reach of a large business. JLWS partners with companies like Corporate Express to enhance its capabilities and business reach, according to Watson.

 “This is a win-win arrangement. JLWS has the opportunity to grow and expand and Jefferson Lab gets good service and competitive prices,” Watson notes.