94-28555. Procurement List Addition

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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
 

Procurement List Addition

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
Disabled.

ACTION: Addition to the Procurement List.

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SUMMARY: This action adds to the Procurement List a commodity to be 
furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have 
other severe disabilities.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 19, 1994.

ADDRESS: 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 [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 23, 1994, the Committee for 
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published 
notice (59 FR 48864) of proposed addition to the Procurement List.
    Comments were received from a previous contractor in response to a 
request for sales data. The contractor indicated a decline in its sales 
over an unspecified period and opened that addition of the floorboard 
to the Procurement List would decrease its sales. The contractor's 
General Manager also offered to fill a vacant seat on the Committee.
    The contractor did not win the current contractor for the 
floorboard and is thus not a current contractor on which the Committee 
is required to assess impact. Accordingly, given its failure to provide 
specific information on how the Committee's action would harm the 
contractor's business, the Committee must conclude that all the 
contractor is losing is an opportunity to compete for future contracts 
for the floorboard. The Committee does not consider this loss to 
constitute severe adverse impact.
    The Committee does not have any vacancies in its membership at this 
time for which the contractor's General Manager meets the statutory 
qualifications.
    After consideration of the material presented to it concerning 
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the commodity, 
fair market price, and impact of the addition on the current or most 
recent contractors, the Committee has determined that the commodity 
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 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 commodity to the 
Government.
    2. The action does not appear to have a severe economic impact on 
current contractors for the commodity.
    3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish 
the commodity 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 commodity proposed for addition to the 
Procurement List.
    Accordingly, the following commodity is hereby added to the 
Procurement List:

 Floorboard, Vehicular
     2510-01-063-3892

    This action does not affect current contracts awarded prior to the 
effective date of this addition or options exercised under those 
contracts.
G. John Heyer,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 94-28555 Filed 11-17-94; 8:45 am]
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