[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 78 (Friday, April 23, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19976-19977]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-10274]
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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 services to be
furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or have
other severe disabilities.
EFFECTIVE DATE: May 24, 1999.
ADDRESSES: 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 November 30, 1998, January 15, February
26, and March 12, 1999, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are
Blind or Severely Disabled published notices (63 FR 65746,64 FR 2623,
9470 and 12284) of proposed additions to the Procurement List.
The following comments pertain to Janitorial/Custodial, Federal
Building #4, 4401 Suitland Road, Suitland, Maryland.
Comments were received from the current contractor for this
service. The contractor claimed that losing this contract, together
with a 1994 loss of another contract to the Committee's program (from
which it says it has ``never recovered)'', would have a severe impact
on the company.
The contractor has only an interim contract for the building in
question, and that contract began within the past three months.
Although the contractor believes it has an excellent chance of
obtaining the next full contract for the service, the fact is that no
contractor is guaranteed a contract under the competitive bidding
system. Therefore, the Committee is using the value of the interim
contract as the measure of loss for calculating impact of adding the
service to the Procurement List on the contractor. This figure,
considered as a percentage of the contractor's total sales, is well
below the level which the Committee normally considers to constitute
severe adverse impact on a contractor. In addition, the fact that the
contractor has only held the contract for a few months eliminates the
possibility that the firm has any long-term dependence on that
contract's revenues.
The contractor stated that it has not recovered from the impact of
a 1994 Procurement List addition where it had been the current
contractor. However, the Committee's records reflect a statement by the
President of the firm that it was losing money on the contract added to
the Procurement List in 1994, and that it did not want the option to be
exercised. To avoid having its option exercised and to protect another
contract under consideration for addition to the Procurement List, the
firm suggested that the Committee discontinue its consideration of
another
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contract and add the contract in question to the Procurement List. The
Committee proceeded as suggested, and the 1994 addition actually
benefitted rather than harmed the contractor. Consequently, the
Committee does not believe the 1994 addition ever had a significant
adverse impact on the contractor, nor does it believe the current and
1994 additions together constitute severe adverse impact on the
contractor.
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 services and
impact of the additions on the current or most recent contractors, the
Committee has determined that the 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 services to the
Government.
2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on current
contractors for the services.
3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the 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 services proposed for addition to the
Procurement List.
Accordingly, the following services are hereby added to the
Procurement List:
Base Supply Center and Operation of Individual Equipment Element
Store
Moody Air Force Base, Georgia
Duplicating Service
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore, Maryland
Janitorial/Custodial
Federal Building #4, 4401 Suitland Road, Suitland, Maryland
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. 99-10274 Filed 4-22-99; 8:45 am]
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