Complaint Review: GSA1000 - Oldsmar Florida
- GSA1000 477 Commerce Street Oldsmar, Florida United States of America
- Phone: (813) 343-7017
- Web: www..com
- Category: Business Consulting
GSA1000 | Notice of Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Decision: A neutral and independent arbitrator has determined that the following Report contained one or more false statements of fact. The false statements have been redacted. (((REDACTED)))
*Consumer Comment: Fed Biz access
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: GSA1000, LLC response
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: GSA Access Group - No Affiliation
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Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration Program
In re:
GSA Access Group, LLC,
Complainant, v.
Anonymous,
Author.
Rip-Off Report No.:
685715
ARBITRATOR DECISION
Bruce Meyerson,
Arbitrator
Complainant, GSA Access Group, LLC, has challenged the truthfulness of certain statements (each, a Statement) posted by Author Anonymous on the Ripoff Report website at www.ripoffreport.com on January 22, 2011, as Ripoff Report No. 685715 (the Report). Both the Complainant and the Author have agreed to submit the dispute to the Ripoff Report VIP Arbitration.
In addition to challenging the statements made by the Author, the Complainant is also challenging the status or role of the Author. Based upon the nature of the Statements set forth in the Report, the Complainant is unable to identify the status of the Author and asserts that the Complainant has no connection whatsoever to the entity that is the subject of the Complaint, or its proprietors.
Each Statement challenged by the Complainant has been considered, together with any Witness Statements and Documents provided by the Complainant for determination of the truth or falsity of the Statement. The Author has not provided a response to the Complaint.
I have been asked to decide whether the preponderance of the evidence submitted establishes that each Statement is true or that it is false. If the statement identified by the Complainant is determined to be an opinion, no determination will be made as to that particular Statement because an opinion cannot be determined to be true nor false.
Each challenged Statement submitted by the Author is set forth below together with my comments and ruling:
1. Statement: After doing some checking, youll see that GSA1000 goes by many names, including GSA Access Group, GSA Preview, Federal suppliers, countryside publishing, and who knows how many others.
Discussion: GSA Access Group, LLC provides professional assistance to businesses to present their products and services to the Federal Government. GSA Access Group, LLC has submitted the Declarations of its President, James A. Zach, and his partner, Richard Allen Frueh. Mr. Zachs Declaration states that GSA Access Group, LLC has no affiliation with GSA 1000 or its proprietors. Mr. Fruehs Declaration states that he does not have any affiliation with Fred Steinberg, Larry Pino, GSA 1000, GSA Preview, or any other company associated with the foregoing companies or their principals. The Author had the opportunity to provide evidence supporting the Statement but did not do so.
Ruling: I find this Statement false.
2. Statement: GSA1000 GSA 1000; GSA Preview; GSA preview; federal suppliers; gsa access group; b2g institute; telligenix, dynetech; fred steinberg; larry pino[.] If it sounds to (sic) good to be true, it must be GSA1000, Oldsmar, Florida.
Discussion: GSA Access Group, LLC has submitted the Declarations of its President, James A. Zach, and his partner, Richard Allen Frueh. Mr. Zachs Declaration states that GSA Access Group, LLC has no affiliation with GSA 1000 or its proprietors. Mr. Fruehs Declaration states that he does not have any affiliation with Fred Steinberg, Larry Pino, GSA 1000, GSA Preview, or any other company associated with the foregoing companies or their principals. The Author had the opportunity to provide evidence supporting the Statement but did not do so.
Ruling: I find this Statement false.
DATED this ____ day of September, 2011.
________________ Bruce E. Meyerson, Arbitrator
My copmany had a long track record of successfully selling about 50-50 to both businesses and government. When the economy stalled in 2008, our sales to businesses dropped about 40%. Thats when we got the call. It was Carol Tights, calling from the GSA, to tell me that they needed my company for several contracts, but I had to first get a GSA schedule. Actually, Carol was working for a GSA contractor, GSA1000, and the contractor was helping the GSA to locate vendors. Because GSA 1000 was working directly with GSA, they could help me to get a GSA schedule, and much of the cost would be subisidized by the government.
I called other GSA Schedule consultants, and Carols story seemed to check out. The other companies were charging twice as much. I spoke with some friends, who had also paid more than double for the same services that GSA1000 was offering. GSA1000 also had great references on their web site, and guaranteed that they would get me a schedule, something the other consultants would not do. I had no idea how they could make money if htey were chargng half of what all the others charged.
As promised, GSA1000 delivered the schedule. We were amazed how fast and easy the process was. Friends who had used other consultants spent hours digging up data for those consultnats, but GSA1000 took care of all that. We gave them some basic info about our company, and they took care of everything else.
We were delitghted, because now we could grow the government side of our business, and replace the revenue lost when our commercial customers reduced their purchasing. All was good for the first year. Then the other shoe dropped.
Last August, two gentlemen from the GSA Inspectors office, with blue blazers, badges and side-arms, showed up at our business. They demanded all kinds of documents, bills, contract info, etc etc, and told us that we were being investigated for FRAUD!!!! We couldnt believe it. Wed been in business for alomst 40 years, with never a complaint from anyone, and now the federal goverbnment was accusing us of fraud. They demanded that we produce our GSA schedule, but we never received the actual documents from GSA1000. But we felt we were OK, because we could see our schedule right on the GSA.gov website
Then the inspectors produced a stack of paper 3 inches thick, and asked if that was our schedule We hadnt seen it before, other than the top page, which we had signed when we hired GSA1000. As we looked through the document, we saw projects we had never done, employees we had never hired, and invoices we had never sent. GSA1000 had made up all the information, put our signature page on top, and submitted to the government.
Thats when I understood how they were able to charge half, ask for barely any data, get it to GSA in a matter of days, and guarantee a schedule. Theyve been using the same data over and over again for all their clients. Naturally if the same application worked yesterday, it would work again tomorrow, so they could guarantee their work. And they were making money charging 50%, because they were only doing 2% of the effort that the other consultants do.
GSA cancelled our schedule, and banned us from doing business with the government for 3 years. Needless to say, the ban has destroyed our business, but the other option was to fight the ban, and risk charges of criminal fraud against the government and maybe even JAIL. Im a 61-year old service disabled Viet Nam veteran. Im too old to be worrying about lawyers, courts, judges and jail.
Now, you may be thinking that Im just some poor dope, or a disgruntled customer. Im not disgruntled. I tried to save some money, I didnt believe what my friends said or what the established and successful consultants told me. I tried to get something for less than I should have, and I got burned. Shame on me. After all these years, I should have known better. GSA1000 will self destruct on their own, they dont need my help. But you dont need to make the same mistakes I did.
So forget my story if you want, and check the facts for yourself. (((REDACTED))) They are all in Florida, and are the apparent spin-off of the B2G Institute, Telligenix, Dynatech, Fred Steinberg and Larry Pino, who were closed down by the attorney general in 2009. They are all in the same part of florida, all have the same photos on their websites, and (unlike reputable consultants) none of their sites list their owners, partners, exec team or anything else. These guys have long running arrest records throughout the US for all kinds of get-rich-quick scams.
If you dont want to do all the research, Ill help you out a little.
Check out the attorney generals report: http://www.courthousenews.com/2009/09/22/_Cash_Flow_Institute_a_Fraud_Texas_AG_Says.htm
Check out the expose from San Diegos Channel 6 http://www.sandiego6.com/mostpopular/story/B2G-Get-Rich-Scheme-Targets-San-Diego-Business
Check out the expose from Huntsville, ALs Channell 19 http://www.whnt.com/news/whnt-b2g-investigative-report-tease,0,1774507.story
whnt.com /news/takingaction/whnt-b2g-institute-free-workshop,0,2140248.story
Check out Freds trial for bribing a fed http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/551/510/43536/ http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F2/551/510/43536/
This report was posted on Ripoff Report on 01/22/2011 10:09 PM and is a permanent record located here: https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/gsa1000/oldsmar-florida-34677/gsa1000-notice-of-ripoff-report-vip-arbitration-decision-a-neutral-and-independent-arbi-685715. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. Arizona does not observe daylight savings so the post time may be Mountain or Pacific depending on the time of year. Ripoff Report has an exclusive license to this report. It may not be copied without the written permission of Ripoff Report. READ: Foreign websites steal our content
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#3 Consumer Comment
Fed Biz access
AUTHOR: Greg - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, April 30, 2012
Fed Biz Access is part of these companies too.
#2 REBUTTAL Owner of company
GSA1000, LLC response
AUTHOR: GSA1000 - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, February 14, 2011
I am the Managing Member of GSA1000, LLC. I am not, nor is
anyone else who is affiliated with me, hiding our identity. My name can be
simply located through several online sources including social networking
sites.
I do not have, nor have I ever had, any association in any
way with b2g institute, Telligenix, Dynetech, Fred Steinberg, Larry Pino or GSA
Access Group. Absolutely none of the topics or issues covered by the referenced
attorney general’s report, San Diego’s Channel 6, Huntsville, AL’s Channel 6 or
any other links mentioned have anything whatsoever to do with my company or its
clients.
More to the point, at no time did my company ever knowingly
submit any false or inaccurate paper work on behalf of any company to GSA or
any other entity. In fact, through the GSA application process, it is required
by the General Services Administration that a clarifications and negotiations
conversation be held with the owner of the company that is submitting the
application. The purpose of this conversation is to confirm and verify all
information provided to GSA as part of the application by a company owner. In
addition, GSA1000, LLC is required to have the authorization of said owner to
even participate in the conversation between the applicant and the General
Services Administration.
With respect to the information GSA1000, LLC provides to GSA
as part of a vendor application, we are only in a position to include in any
application the financial and pricing information as it is provided to us by
the applicant. We do not alter
information provided to us in any way other than to incorporate the information
into the format required in the GSA application. Any company that is awarded a
GSA schedule is, by agreement, subject to audit and review by the General Services
Administration. Such reviews are conducted to insure that the information
represented by the applicant in the application conforms to the applicant’s
internal business records as to pricing, finances and other matters. GSA audits
do not generally include agents that are armed with anything more then pen and
paper. It is apparent that government officials believed that what this
business represented in its GSA application was inaccurate and did not conform
to the schedule holders own business records.
Accordingly, implicit in what was stated in the RipOff
Report posting is not that there was anything false or inaccurate in the
application which was prepared based on business records provided by the
applicant, but that the business records located at the place of business did
not conform to the records provided to GSA as part of the application process.
If the allegations made by this business are true, why was GSA1000, LLC not
contacted by any investigator in regard to the application? If the allegations
made by this business are true, why was GSA1000, LLC not contacted by the
business owner in some way other than this format? The answer is that we were
merely preparing and filing an application for GSA contractor status based on
the information provided to us by the business. It is certainly not in our
interest to include in any GSA application anything other than the information
that is provided to us by our clients.
What has been stated on RipOff Report is false, inaccurate
and not in any way representative of my company or its business practices. The
fact that we were not contacted concerning this investigation by any party
strongly supports the fact we were only attempting to do the job we were
retained to do. GSA1000, LLC requests the retraction of this false and
inaccurate posting. GSA1000, LLC asks that proof of our association with the
individuals and companies mentioned in this posting be provided. Since there is
no such proof, this poster should cease and desist from in any way associating
GSA1000, LLC with any other organization referenced in this post. If GSA1000,
LLC has truly committed any improper act we would ask that any evidence of such
allegations be provided to us so that we might have an opportunity to exonerate
ourselves from such accusations.
#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
GSA Access Group - No Affiliation
AUTHOR: Informed - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Thursday, February 03, 2011
At GSA Access Group we would like to take the opportunity to deny all claims of our alleged affiliation with all organizations mentioned in this posting. GSA Access Groups president James Zach founded GSA Access Group to provide a platform where businesses get professional assistance to effectively present their products and services directly to the Federal Government, or through Sub Contracting opportunities. James Zachs extensive experience since 1992 includes working with government programs which resulted in subcontracting over $1 Billion dollars through major prime vendors of various branches of the government in 2009.
Due to the many great contacts James Zach had made over the years he was able to gather an experienced Management team to establish 3PM EComm in June of 2009. Doing business as GSA Access Group, 3PM Ecomm is based out of St. Petersburg, Florida. GSA Access Groups staff brings to the table over one hundred years of combined Government Contract experience with the Department of Defense, NASA, Homeland Security, Department of Education, and the General Services Administration just to name a few. Their staff also brings a great wealth of knowledge working directly with large corporations building relationships with the likes of Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Johnson & Johnson, and Verizon being just some of their teaming partners at previous positions. We at GSA Access Group would like to thank you for taking the time to read our response to this posting .If we can be of service please do not hesitate to contact us.
At GSA Access Group we specialize in exceeding the needs of our clients and take great pride in the quality of service that we provide on a daily basis. As stated previously, GSA Access Group is not affiliated with any of the organizations mentioned on this posting. We have not been able to make the connection as to why our organization was mentioned other than we happen to be in the same state as the other organizations mentioned. We made several attempts to validate this posting through the Office of Inspector General for the GSA with no success. Investigations and enforcement proceedings of this nature are posted on GSAs Office of Inspector Generals site (http://www.gsaig.gov/allnews.cfm).
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