b'PROGRAM IMPACTDuring FY 24, companies assisted by MT APEX Accelerators six locations statewide secured $210,836,237 in federal, state and local contracts. Of this, ADVISING $49 million to companies in the Yellowstone County/Eastern MT region and $30 million to companies in BSEDs SW MT remote location. This location & LENDING covers a seven-county region including Gallatin, Silver Bow & Lewis & Clark. APEX advisors (statewide) held 53 training events with 1,011 in attendance N S W C U R S E C U I D R R T E E TE L O T K I M O E N V S P E R N E M O F RY and provided 3295 hours of advising to 1194 unique businesses.Rural and Tribal Environmental Serving the stateof Montana Solutions, Inc.Company Location: Billings, MTFounding Year: 2004The company provides environmental, air, water & solid waste management consulting and on-site technical assistance to underserved populations across the United States. The company aims to bolster environmental equity to tribes and small rural communities and, support those entities to empower themselves to create a healthy and prosperous environment.Services Overview:The company first came to MT APEX (then PTAC) in 2004 for federal registration Sysco Montana, Inc. assistance, government contracting education and assistance with obtaining a GSA Schedule. The company has returned for services as needed, and over the B W E NSTO Company Location: Billings, MT last twenty years has become an extremely successful federal contractor. Since Founding Year:The Montana corporation was registered in 1988,2004, the company has secured $7.8 million in federal contracts with EPA, BLM, but its parent, Sysco Corporation, was founded in 1969 in Houston,GSA, USDA, DoD and Indian Health Services, primarily through sales on its GSA Texas. The company has locations in 90 different countries. Schedule. More recently, Billings APEX advisors have been assisting the company T N E T with renewing its 20-year GSA Schedule so it can continue to provide solutions Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing foodsto the government.M P O L E V E PAC and non-food products to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging established and other customers around the world.D Y T M Services Overview:We are so grateful that MT APEX is here to help us sort out the mazeBillings APEX Advisors assisted the company with untangling itsof renewing our GSA Schedule. The process today is very differentI N S S A V S N I E N D I N G E UC N D I I & G L U M M O S B I expired SAM registration. The company had lost access to it andfrom when we first obtained our schedule 20 years ago.could not get paid on orders that had been placed by DoD. It took several meetings to gain access to the registration, correct the LEE MICHALSKYlegal name and get the registration active again. Companies cannot get paid if SAM is expired. Since APEX helped the company, it has collected $449,885 in back payments. Thank you for helping us get our SAM registration sorted out. We were bewildered and had been spinning our wheels for two months.CAROLE MAKIN5 BIG SKY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BIGSKYECONOMICDEVELOPMENT.ORG'