[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 192 (Friday, October 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51827-51828]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26328]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions and Deletion
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to and deletion from the Procurement List.
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SUMMARY: This action adds to the Procurement List commodities and
services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who
are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the
Procurement List a service previously furnished by such agencies.
EFFECTIVE DATE: November 3, 1997.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, Crystal Square 3, Suite 403, 1735 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202-3461.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beverly Milkman, (703) 603-7740.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 14, June 27, July 25, August 1
and 15, 1997, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or
Severely Disabled published notices (62 FR 6946, 34686, 40049, 41339
and 43698) of proposed additions to and deletion from the Procurement
List:
Additions
The Following Comments Pertain to Laundry/Dry Cleaning Service,
Quantico, VA
Comments were received from the current contractor in response to a
Committee request for sales data. The contractor indicated that
addition of this service to the Procurement List would have a severe
impact on the subsidiary which is performing the service but would not
result in the economic collapse of the parent company. The contractor
also claimed that the addition would have a severe impact on two
subcontractors involved in performing the service, and would require
the contractor to terminate several employees.
The Committee looks at impact on the entire corporate structure of
a contractor when it makes its assessment of the impact a Procurement
List addition will have, not just the subsidiary that performs the
service. In this case, that impact is far below the level which the
Committee considers to be severe adverse impact.
The contractor indicated that its activities in the contract are
limited to pickup and delivery of laundry and dry cleaning and
performing adminstrative functions, while the actual laundering and dry
cleaning operations are provided, respectively, by two subcontractors.
The contractor provided data for the two subcontractors to indicate
that impact of the addition on them would be severe.
The nonprofit agency will be performing all the functions of the
current contractor and its laundry subcontractor. It will be
subcontracting the dry cleaning to the current dry cleaning
subcontractor initially, and that contractor will continue to have the
opportunity to bid on subcontracts for dry cleaning, so the addition
will not have a severe adverse impact on that subcontractor. The
percentage of sales which the current laundry subcontractor will lose
because of the Procurement List addition does not rise to the level
which the Committee normally considers to be severe adverse impact.
The unemployment rate for people with severe disabilities exceeds
65 percent, which is far above the rate for most other people in this
country. Consequently, the Committee believes that any loss of
employment by the current contractor's employees is outweighed by the
jobs which will be created for people with severe disabilities. In
addition, given the scope of the project, the Committee does not
believe that the number of employees mentioned by the current
contractor will be displaced as a direct result of the Committee's
action.
After consideration of the material presented to it concerning
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the commodities
and services and impact of the additions on the current or most recent
contractors, the Committee has determined that the commodities and
services listed below are suitable for procurement by the Federal
Government under 41 U.S.C. 46-48c and 41 CFR 51-2.4.
I certify that the following action will not have a significant
impact on a
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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 commodities and
services to the Government.
2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on current
contractors for the commodities and services.
3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the commodities and services to the Government.
4. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would
accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-
48c) in connection with the commodities and services proposed for
addition to the Procurement List.
Accordingly, the following commodities and services are hereby
added to the Procurement List:
Commodities
Office and Miscellaneous Supplies
(Requirements for Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington)
Services
Grounds Maintenance, Base Hospital, Buildings 5520, 5521 & 5522,
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Janitorial/Custodial
VA Outpatient Clinic, Las Vegas, Nevada
Janitorial/Custodial
Federal Building, 209 Broadway, New York, New York
Laundry/Dry Cleaning
U.S. Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia
This action does not affect current contracts awarded prior to the
effective date of this addition or options that may be exercised under
those contracts.
Deletion
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.
2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on future
contractors for the service.
3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the service to the Government.
4. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would
accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-
48c) in connection with the service deleted from the Procurement List.
The following service is hereby deleted from the Procurement List:
Document Destruction, Internal Revenue Service, Cincinnati Service
Center, 200 West Fourth Street, Covington, Kentucky.
Beverly L. Milkman,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 97-26328 Filed 10-2-97; 8:45 am]
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