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Federal, state, and local governments buy everything, from office supplies to construction services, from catering to janitorial services.
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These days, you can buy virtually all of your office supplies online and the goods will arrive at your door in a day or two.
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We assumed that most small businesses would rather shop online than work through one of the "contract" divisions, which offer volume deals to larger companies. (Wal-mart may offer some good deals on office supplies, but you can't buy them readily online.) Full disclosure: Forbes.com gets a vast majority of its supplies from Weeks-Lerman in Queens, N.
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