Scheduling Dollars

Here's what getting on a GSA supply schedule can do for a business. United Rentals, the biggest equipment rental company in the world, announced this week that the federal government had become its single largest customer. The company, which operates a network of nearly 700 rental locations, has held a GSA schedule since 2005. Of course, federal contracts still made up less than 1 percent of the $3.6 billion in total revenues United Rentals received in 2006.