98-2974. Procurement List; Additions

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 6152]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2974]


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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 a 
service to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are 
blind or have other severe disabilities.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 9, 1998.

ADDRESS: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
Disabled, Crystal Gteway 3, Suite 310, 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, 
Arlington, Virginia 22202-4302.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beverly Milkman [phone].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 28, 1997, the Committee for 
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled published 
notice (62 FR 63314) of proposed additions to the Procurement List.
    The following comments pertain to Janitorial/Custodial, Front 
Royal, Virginia: Comments were received from the current contractor in 
response to a sales data request. The contractor noted that cleaning 
the Canine Enforcement Training Center is a very challenging job which 
requires an aggressive service schedule. The contractor also noted that 
all its employees need the work and hope to be allowed to continue 
doing it.
    The nonprofit agency which will be cleaning the Center has been 
found capable of doing so based in part on the contracting officer's 
statement that he is aware of the agency's performance and management 
capability based on its other Federal work in the area, made in 
connection with a waiver of the contracting activity's opportunity to 
conduct a capability survey of the nonprofit agency. The Committee is 
confident the nonprofit agency will be able to perform all the 
requirements of cleaning the Center in a thoroughly acceptable manner.
    The contractor's employees are not the only ones who need the work. 
Putting this service on the Procurement List will allow workers with 
severe disabilities, who have an unemployment rate far above that of 
nondisabled workers, to be gainfully employed.
    After consideration of the material presented to it concerning 
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the commodities 
and service and impact of the additions on the current or most recent 
contractors, the Committee has determined that the commodities and 
service 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 
service to the Government.
    2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on current 
contractors for the commodities and service.
    3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish 
the commodities and 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 commodities and service proposed for 
addition to the Procurement List.
    Accordingly, the following commodities and service are hereby added 
to the Procurement List:

Commodities

Gloves
    M.R. 509
    M.R. 415
    M.R. 416
    M.R. 417
    M.R. 418
    M.R. 514
    M.R. 515

Service

Janitorial/Custodial, U.S. Customs Service, Canine Enforcement 
Training Center (Various Buildings), Front Royal, 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.
Beverly L. Milkman,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 98-2974 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am]
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