[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 228 (Monday, November 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66611-66612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30921]
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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 to the Procurement List commodities and
services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who
are blind or have other severe disabilities.
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 29, 1999.
ADDRESS: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, Crystal Gateway 3, Suite 310, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Arlington, Virginia 22202-4302.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beverly Milkman (703) 603-7740.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 3 and 24, and October 8 and 15,
1999, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled published notices (64 F.R. 48345, 51736, 54862 and 55897) of
proposed additions to the Procurement List.
The Following Comments Pertain to Bookcase, Steel, Contemporary
Comments were received from the current contractor in response to a
request for sales data. The contractor suggested that the previous
addition to the Procurement List of a portion of the Government
requirements for the bookcase hastened the demise of a corporate
predecessor to the contractor. The contractor indicated that current
Federal sales of the bookcase represent only a very small portion of
the contractor's total sales, but are important because they use some
of the company's underutilized productive capacity. The contractor also
noted its status as a Hubzone Empowerment Contracting Company located
in an extremely high unemployment area. According to the Committee's
figures, the previous Procurement List addition the contractor
mentioned affected a fairly small portion of the sales of the
contractor's corporate predecessor. As the contractor admitted, the
current Procurement List addition affects an even smaller part of the
contractor's current total sales. Persons with severe disabilities have
an unemployment rate over twice that cited by the contractor for its
area. The Committee therefore believes that addition of this supply
requirement for the bookcase will not have a severe adverse impact on
the contractor, even taking the past Procurement List addition impact
into consideration, and the jobs to be created for persons with severe
disabilities outweigh a possible job loss for workers who could more
easily find replacement jobs.
The Following Comments Pertain to Cup, Paper, Disposable, Hot
Comments were received from one of the current contractors for this
cup. The contractor noted that while sales of the cup are a small part
of the company's total sales, they are a ``rather significant piece of
business'' for the company's cup sales. The contractor also asked to be
allowed to be a supplier if the cup were added to the Procurement List.
The contractor is a very large business, and its sales of this cup
are well below one percent of its total sales, so the Committee's
action should have no severe adverse impact on the company or its cup
production operation, which the company can easily support if needed.
Addition of the cup to the Procurement List will not bar the contractor
from serving as a supplier of paper cup stock to the nonprofit agency
which will produce the cup for the Government.
The Following Material Pertains to all of the Items Being Added to
the Procurement List
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 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.
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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
Bookcase, Steel, Contemporary
7110-00-601-9821
7110-00-601-9822
7110-01-135-1997
7110-01-135-1998
(Requirements for GSA Zones 2 and 3 only)
Cup, Paper, Disposable, Hot
7350-00-162-3006
Services
Food Service Attendant
Air National Guard Base
New Castle County Airport
New Castle, Delaware
Laundry/Dry Cleaning
Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base
Camp Pendleton, California
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.
Beverly L. Milkman,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 99-30921 Filed 11-26-99; 8:45 am]
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