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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to the Procurement
List.
AGENCY:
This action adds products and
services to the Procurement List that
will be furnished by nonprofit agencies
employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.
DATES: Effective Date: 5/20/2014.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite
10800, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Barry S. Lineback, Telephone: (703)
603–7740, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email
CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Additions
On 12/20/2013 (78 FR 77105–77106)
and 2/14/2014 (79 FR 8943–8944), the
Committee for Purchase From People
Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
published notices of proposed additions
to the Procurement List.
After consideration of the material
presented to it concerning capability of
qualified nonprofit agencies to provide
the products and services and impact of
the additions on the current or most
recent contractors, the Committee has
determined that the products and
services listed below are suitable for
procurement by the Federal Government
under 41 U.S.C. 8501–8506 and 41 CFR
51–2.4.
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Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
I certify that the following action will
not have a significant impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The major factors considered for this
certification were:
1. The action will not result in any
additional reporting, recordkeeping or
other compliance requirements for small
entities other than the small
organizations that will furnish the
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products and services to the
Government.
2. The action will result in
authorizing small entities to furnish the
products and services to the
Government.
3. There are no known regulatory
alternatives which would accomplish
the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in
connection with the products and
services proposed for addition to the
Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following products
and services are added to the
Procurement List:
Products
Bungee Rope, Flexible, w/Crimped Loops
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0127—3 feet, Black
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0129—5 feet, Black
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0192—3 feet,
Camouflage
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0193—3 feet, Olive Drab
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0194—3 feet, Orange
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0195—3 feet, Tan
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0196—5 feet,
Camouflage
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0197—5 feet, Olive Drab
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0198—5 feet, Orange
NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0199—5 feet, Tan
NPA: L.C. Industries for the Blind, Inc.,
Durham, NC
Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS
AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
COVERAGE: B-List for the Broad
Government Requirement as aggregated
by the Defense Logistics Agency,
Philadelphia, PA.
Gauze, Petrolatum, Sterile, White, 36″ x 3″
NSN: 6510–01–362–4959
NPA: Lighthouse Works, Orlando, FL
Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS
AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
COVERAGE: C-List for 100% of the
requirement of the Department of
Defense, as aggregated by the Defense
Logistics Agency Troop Support,
Philadelphia, PA.
Services
Service Type/Location: Base Operations
Support Service, National GeospatialIntelligence Agency, NGA Campus West,
3200 S 2nd Street, St. Louis, MO
NPAs: ServiceSource, Inc., Alexandria, VA
(Prime), CW Resources, Inc., New
Britain, CT (Subcontractor)
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF DEFENSE,
NATIONAL GEOSPATIALINTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ARNOLD,
MO
The Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled (Committee) administers the
AbilityOne Program in accordance with
statutory and regulatory requirements.
Committee regulations at 41 CFR 51–2–
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4 state that for a commodity or service
to be suitable for addition to the
Procurement List (PL) each of the
following criteria must be satisfied:
employment potential; nonprofit agency
qualifications, capability, and level of
impact on the current contractor for the
commodity or service.
Comments were received from the
incumbent contractor. The contractor,
an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC),
states that the Committee should not
add the project to the PL, as it would
result in severe adverse impact on their
firm and that the service cannot be
performed as required by the JavitsWagner-O’Day (JWOD) Act. The
contractor lists several reasons why the
service should not be added to the PL,
including: The Base Operations Support
(BOS) service is the ANC’s largest
contract, representing over 35% of its
FY12 sales revenue; the contractor has
been a continuous supplier of the
service since 1999 and relies on its track
record of successful performance; ANCs
are defined as ‘‘economically
disadvantaged business enterprises,’’
which precludes the Committee from
including its parent and affiliated
corporations’ financial sales revenue
when assessing impact; and the addition
would violate the intent of various
statutes and regulations that confer
contracting benefits on ANCs. The
contractor also asserts that the BOS
service contract will not generate
employment for people with severe
disabilities because they claim it cannot
be performed using a 75% severely
disabled workforce which they say is
required by the JWOD Act for each
service; and, they assert that the
proposed AbilityOne nonprofit agency
is not capable of performing the service
or doing so at a fair market price.
Information provided by the
contracting activity shows that the
current contract for BOS service was
awarded to the contractor as a large
business in May 2009, following a full
and open competition. The last option
year ends on June 30, 2014. Following
required government contracting
protocols, the contracting activity
conducted market research and
developed an acquisition strategy
seeking an AbilityOne nonprofit agency
solution for the BOS service. The
contracting activity has worked closely
with the AbilityOne Program and the
proposed nonprofit agency, and advises
the Committee that it is fully confident
of the technical capability of the
nonprofit agency to perform the services
using a workforce consisting of persons
with severe disabilities. The contracting
activity fully participated in the
development of the recommended fair
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market price considered by the
Committee.
In accordance with its regulations, the
Committee considers whether the
addition of an item to the PL would
likely have a severe adverse impact on
the current contractor by evaluating the
financial data of the current contractor
and its affiliated and parent
corporations. The Committee does not
separate contractors into ‘‘economically
disadvantaged business enterprise’’
categories when reviewing the requested
financial information. The contractor
refused to provide the financial
information of its affiliated and parent
corporations. Following its standard
practice, without such information, the
Committee was unable to determine
whether the addition of the service to
the PL would result in severe adverse
impact or if the contractor was more
dependent on the sales; therefore, the
Committee notified the contractor that it
was proceeding with development of
the project.
The contractor claims that ANCs are
granted certain contracting benefits
which should prevent the Committee
from adding this project to the PL.
However, the Committee’s
responsibility is to implement the JWOD
Act and the Government’s policy to
increase employment opportunities for
people who are blind or severely
disabled. The Committee’s authority to
determine whether products or services
are suitable for procurement from
people with significant disabilities is
not precluded by the limited contract
preferences afforded to ANCs. The
Committee determines that the JWOD
Act coexists with and remains relevant
in light of the statutes that afford limited
contract preference to ANCs.
The contractor is incorrect in alleging
that the BOS service contract will not
generate employment for people with
severe disabilities since each function or
service will not be performed using a
75% severely disabled workforce,
thereby demonstrating that the
nonprofit agency is incapable of
performing the services or doing so at a
fair market price. The JWOD Act has no
requirement that each service involved
in a contract be performed using a 75%
disabled workforce. The Committee
determines which services and products
provided by qualified nonprofit
agencies employing people who are
blind or severely disabled are suitable to
be added to the PL. A qualified
nonprofit agency is one that employs
people who are blind or severely
disabled for not less than 75% of the
direct labor hours involved in
furnishing all goods and services
provided by the nonprofit agency during
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the fiscal year, including those
furnished outside the AbilityOne
Program. The nonprofit agencies
proposed to perform the work will
maintain compliance with the statutory
direct labor ratio requirement.
Moreover, the information available to
the Committee convincingly documents
that the BOS service will generate
employment for people with severe
disabilities; that the nonprofit agency is
capable of performing the services; and
that the service can be performed at a
fair market price established by the
Committee.
Accordingly, after full consideration,
the Committee has determined that the
service in question is suitable for
addition to the Procurement List.
Service Type/Location: Janitorial Service,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 6,
National Eagle and Wildlife Property
Repository and Law Enforcement Office,
(Except wildlife property storage area
(warehouse)), 6550 Gateway Road, RMA,
Building 128, Commerce City, CO
NPA: North Metro Community Services for
Developmentally Disabled, Westminster,
CO
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE
INTERIOR, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE
SERVICE, CONTRACTING AND
GENERAL SERVICES DIV, DENVER, CO
Barry S. Lineback,
Director, Business Operations.
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Proposed Additions
and Deletions
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Proposed Additions to and
Deletions from the Procurement List.
AGENCY:
The Committee is proposing
to add services to the Procurement List
that will be provided by the nonprofit
agency employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities,
and deletes products previously
furnished by such agency.
DATES: Comments Must Be Received On
Or Before: 5/20/2014.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite
10800, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT
COMMENTS CONTACT: Barry S. Lineback,
Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703)
PO 00000
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603–0655, or email CMTEFedReg@
AbilityOne.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to 41
U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its
purpose is to provide interested persons
an opportunity to submit comments on
the proposed actions.
Additions
If the Committee approves the
proposed additions, the entities of the
Federal Government identified in this
notice will be required to provide the
services listed below from the nonprofit
agency employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities.
The following services are proposed
for addition to the Procurement List for
provision by the nonprofit agency listed:
Services
Service Type/Locations: Building Operations
and Maintenance Services
GSA, PBS, Region 2, Theodore Roosevelt
US Courthouse, South Wing, Emanuel
Celler U.S. Courthouse, North Wing, 225
Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, NY
GSA, PBS, Region 2, U.S. Post Office and
Conrad B. Duberstein, Bankruptcy
Courthouse, 271 Cadman Plaza East,
Brooklyn, NY
NPA: Fedcap Rehabilitation Services, Inc.,
New York, NY
Contracting Activity: GSA/Public Buildings
Service, Brooklyn, NY
Deletions
The following products are proposed
for deletion from the Procurement List:
Products
Calendars
NSN: 7530–01–587–9589—DAYMAX
System, 2013, JR Planner, 6-hole,
Burgundy
NSN: 7530–01–587–9730—DAYMAX
System, 2013, Planner, 7-hole, Desert
Camouflage
NSN: 7530–01–587–9730L—DAYMAX
System, 2013, Planner, 7-hole, Desert
Camouflage
NSN: 7530–01–587–9702—DAYMAX
System, 2013, LE Planner, 3-hole, Navy
NSN: 7530–01–587–9713—DAYMAX
System, 2013, JR Deluxe Planner, 6-hole,
Digital Camouflage, Black
NSN: 7530–01–587–9716—DAYMAX
System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole, Navy
NSN: 7530–01–587–9716L—DAYMAX
System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole, Navy
w/logo
NSN: 7530–01–587–9713L—DAYMAX
System, 2013, JR Deluxe Planner, 6-hole,
Digital Camouflage, Black w/logo
NSN: 7530–01–587–9702L—DAYMAX
System, 2013, LE Planner, 3-hole, Navy
w/logo
NSN: 7530–01–587–9639—DAYMAX
System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole,
Burgundy
NSN: 7530–01–587–9671—DAYMAX
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to the Procurement List.
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SUMMARY: This action adds products and services to the Procurement List
that will be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are
blind or have other severe disabilities.
DATES: Effective Date: 5/20/2014.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 10800, Arlington, Virginia 22202-
4149.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barry S. Lineback, Telephone: (703)
603-7740, Fax: (703) 603-0655, or email CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Additions
On 12/20/2013 (78 FR 77105-77106) and 2/14/2014 (79 FR 8943-8944),
the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled published notices of proposed additions to the Procurement
List.
After consideration of the material presented to it concerning
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the products and
services and impact of the additions on the current or most recent
contractors, the Committee has determined that the products and
services listed below are suitable for procurement by the Federal
Government under 41 U.S.C. 8501-8506 and 41 CFR 51-2.4.
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
I certify that the following action will not have a significant
impact on a substantial number of small entities. The major factors
considered for this certification were:
1. The action will not result in any additional reporting,
recordkeeping or other compliance requirements for small entities other
than the small organizations that will furnish the products and
services to the Government.
2. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the products and services to the Government.
3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would
accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C.
8501-8506) in connection with the products and services proposed for
addition to the Procurement List.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following products and services are added to the
Procurement List:
Products
Bungee Rope, Flexible, w/Crimped Loops
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0127--3 feet, Black
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0129--5 feet, Black
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0192--3 feet, Camouflage
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0193--3 feet, Olive Drab
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0194--3 feet, Orange
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0195--3 feet, Tan
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0196--5 feet, Camouflage
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0197--5 feet, Olive Drab
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0198--5 feet, Orange
NSN: 5340-00-NIB-0199--5 feet, Tan
NPA: L.C. Industries for the Blind, Inc., Durham, NC
Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
COVERAGE: B-List for the Broad Government Requirement as aggregated
by the Defense Logistics Agency, Philadelphia, PA.
Gauze, Petrolatum, Sterile, White, 36 x 3
NSN: 6510-01-362-4959
NPA: Lighthouse Works, Orlando, FL
Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT,
PHILADELPHIA, PA
COVERAGE: C-List for 100% of the requirement of the Department of
Defense, as aggregated by the Defense Logistics Agency Troop
Support, Philadelphia, PA.
Services
Service Type/Location: Base Operations Support Service, National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, NGA Campus West, 3200 S 2nd Street,
St. Louis, MO
NPAs: ServiceSource, Inc., Alexandria, VA (Prime), CW Resources,
Inc., New Britain, CT (Subcontractor)
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF DEFENSE, NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-
INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ARNOLD, MO
The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled (Committee) administers the AbilityOne Program in accordance
with statutory and regulatory requirements. Committee regulations at 41
CFR 51-2-4 state that for a commodity or service to be suitable for
addition to the Procurement List (PL) each of the following criteria
must be satisfied: employment potential; nonprofit agency
qualifications, capability, and level of impact on the current
contractor for the commodity or service.
Comments were received from the incumbent contractor. The
contractor, an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), states that the
Committee should not add the project to the PL, as it would result in
severe adverse impact on their firm and that the service cannot be
performed as required by the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act. The
contractor lists several reasons why the service should not be added to
the PL, including: The Base Operations Support (BOS) service is the
ANC's largest contract, representing over 35% of its FY12 sales
revenue; the contractor has been a continuous supplier of the service
since 1999 and relies on its track record of successful performance;
ANCs are defined as ``economically disadvantaged business
enterprises,'' which precludes the Committee from including its parent
and affiliated corporations' financial sales revenue when assessing
impact; and the addition would violate the intent of various statutes
and regulations that confer contracting benefits on ANCs. The
contractor also asserts that the BOS service contract will not generate
employment for people with severe disabilities because they claim it
cannot be performed using a 75% severely disabled workforce which they
say is required by the JWOD Act for each service; and, they assert that
the proposed AbilityOne nonprofit agency is not capable of performing
the service or doing so at a fair market price.
Information provided by the contracting activity shows that the
current contract for BOS service was awarded to the contractor as a
large business in May 2009, following a full and open competition. The
last option year ends on June 30, 2014. Following required government
contracting protocols, the contracting activity conducted market
research and developed an acquisition strategy seeking an AbilityOne
nonprofit agency solution for the BOS service. The contracting activity
has worked closely with the AbilityOne Program and the proposed
nonprofit agency, and advises the Committee that it is fully confident
of the technical capability of the nonprofit agency to perform the
services using a workforce consisting of persons with severe
disabilities. The contracting activity fully participated in the
development of the recommended fair
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market price considered by the Committee.
In accordance with its regulations, the Committee considers whether
the addition of an item to the PL would likely have a severe adverse
impact on the current contractor by evaluating the financial data of
the current contractor and its affiliated and parent corporations. The
Committee does not separate contractors into ``economically
disadvantaged business enterprise'' categories when reviewing the
requested financial information. The contractor refused to provide the
financial information of its affiliated and parent corporations.
Following its standard practice, without such information, the
Committee was unable to determine whether the addition of the service
to the PL would result in severe adverse impact or if the contractor
was more dependent on the sales; therefore, the Committee notified the
contractor that it was proceeding with development of the project.
The contractor claims that ANCs are granted certain contracting
benefits which should prevent the Committee from adding this project to
the PL. However, the Committee's responsibility is to implement the
JWOD Act and the Government's policy to increase employment
opportunities for people who are blind or severely disabled. The
Committee's authority to determine whether products or services are
suitable for procurement from people with significant disabilities is
not precluded by the limited contract preferences afforded to ANCs. The
Committee determines that the JWOD Act coexists with and remains
relevant in light of the statutes that afford limited contract
preference to ANCs.
The contractor is incorrect in alleging that the BOS service
contract will not generate employment for people with severe
disabilities since each function or service will not be performed using
a 75% severely disabled workforce, thereby demonstrating that the
nonprofit agency is incapable of performing the services or doing so at
a fair market price. The JWOD Act has no requirement that each service
involved in a contract be performed using a 75% disabled workforce. The
Committee determines which services and products provided by qualified
nonprofit agencies employing people who are blind or severely disabled
are suitable to be added to the PL. A qualified nonprofit agency is one
that employs people who are blind or severely disabled for not less
than 75% of the direct labor hours involved in furnishing all goods and
services provided by the nonprofit agency during the fiscal year,
including those furnished outside the AbilityOne Program. The nonprofit
agencies proposed to perform the work will maintain compliance with the
statutory direct labor ratio requirement. Moreover, the information
available to the Committee convincingly documents that the BOS service
will generate employment for people with severe disabilities; that the
nonprofit agency is capable of performing the services; and that the
service can be performed at a fair market price established by the
Committee.
Accordingly, after full consideration, the Committee has determined
that the service in question is suitable for addition to the
Procurement List.
Service Type/Location: Janitorial Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Region 6, National Eagle and Wildlife Property Repository
and Law Enforcement Office, (Except wildlife property storage area
(warehouse)), 6550 Gateway Road, RMA, Building 128, Commerce City,
CO
NPA: North Metro Community Services for Developmentally Disabled,
Westminster, CO
Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE INTERIOR, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE
SERVICE, CONTRACTING AND GENERAL SERVICES DIV, DENVER, CO
Barry S. Lineback,
Director, Business Operations.
[FR Doc. 2014-09005 Filed 4-18-14; 8:45 am]
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