94-30971. 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 filter element to 
be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or 
have other severe disabilities.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 17, 1995.

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 [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 5, 1994, the Committee for 
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published 
notice (59 FR 40010) of proposed addition to the Procurement List. 
Comments were received from the current contractor for the filter 
element, indicating that addition of the element to the Procurement 
List would have a sizeable negative impact on the contractor. The 
contractor also indicated that it had been impacted in the past two 
years by losing the opportunity to bid on three other filter elements, 
one of which had been added to the Procurement List and the others set 
aside for other Government procurement preference programs.
    In assessing the severity of impact of a Procurement List addition 
on a contractor, the Committee generally begins by comparing the 
expected value of the contract with the current contractor's total 
sales. The Committee also takes into account other recent additions to 
the Procurement List where the affected contractor was the current 
contractor. In this case, the percentage of sales which the contractor 
would lose, along with the loss suffered in one recent addition to the 
Procurement List, does not reach the level which the Committee 
considers to be severe adverse impact on the contractor.
    Because no contractor is guaranteed to receive a contract under the 
competitive bidding system, the Committee does not normally consider 
loss of the opportunity to bid on subsequent contracts to constitute 
severe adverse impact. In this case, the commenting contractor was not 
the current contractor for the other filter element added to the 
Procurement List which the contractor mentioned in its comments. 
Consequently, the Committee does not believe that loss of opportunity 
to bid on the filter element now being added to the Procurement List 
adds to the severity of impact which the contractor will experience.
    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 is 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 will not 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: Filter Element,
4130-01-103-8339.
    This action does not affect current contracts awarded prior to the 
effective date of this addition or options exercised under those 
contracts.
Beverly L. Milkman,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 94-30971 Filed 12-15-94; 8:45 am]
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