[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 99 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28350-28352]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13728]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Additions and Deletions
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Additions to and deletions from the Procurement List.
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SUMMARY: This action adds to the Procurement List a commodity and
services to be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who
are blind or have other severe disabilities, and deletes from the
Procurement List commodities and a service previously furnished by such
agencies.
EFFECTIVE DATE: June 22, 1998.
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 January 5, April 3 and 20, 1998, the
Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
published notices (63 FR 203, 16470 and 19474) of proposed additions to
and deletions from the Procurement List:
Additions
The following comments pertain to Shirt, Sleeping.
Comments were received from the current contractor for the sleeping
shirts. The contractor indicated that the shirts are an important part
of one of its plants' production during certain months of the year.
While these shirts may be important to one of the contractor's
three plants for part of the year, the Committee looks at the overall
impact of a Procurement List addition on the contractor's total sales
when it makes its impact determinations. The impact of this addition on
the contractor's total sales is very small, and well below the level
which the Committee normally considers to be severe adverse impact. The
Committee is only adding ten percent of the Government requirement for
the shirts to the Procurement List at this time, which will leave 50
percent of the requirement available for competitive procurement from
this contractor or its competitors. The Committee's earlier addition to
the Procurement List of 40 percent of the Government requirement caused
only a slight decline in the contractor's sales. Consequently, the
Committee does not believe that addition of the sleeping shirts to the
Procurement List will have a severe adverse impact on the contractor.
The following comments pertain to Central Facility Management, The
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta, Georgia.
Comments were received from the current contractor for this
service. The contractor noted that it expects a severe reduction in its
total sales during this
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year, due to cutbacks in Government funding for services such as those
it provides and that, consequently, loss of this contract to the
Procurement List would have a severe adverse impact on the company. The
contractor further noted that it is in its eighth year of providing
this service at this location. The contractor's projections assume that
when the contracts it currently holds are re-bid to reduce the costs,
it will not succeed in obtaining any of the new contracts. The
Committee views this as an unrealistically pessimistic projection.
Under the circumstances, even taking into account the contractor's
greater dependence on this relatively small contract after eight years
and the impact of another recent addition to the Procurement List, the
Committee does not believe that the percentage of the firm's sales
represented by this contract is substantial enough to result in a
severe adverse impact on the contractor.
The following comments pertain to Food Service and Food Service
Attendant, Postwide, Fort Hood, Texas.
Comments were received from the current contractor for this
service. The contractor claimed that the addition of the service to the
Procurement List would have a severe adverse impact on the contractor
as it represents a substantial portion of the contractor's sales. The
contractor also noted that it is performing the contract under the
Small Business Administration's (SBA) 8(a) Program, that the service
has been in the 8(a) Program for a while, and that addition of the
service to the Procurement List would foreclose future 8(a) Program
participants from performing the contract.
The Government contracting activity responsible for this service
has informed the Committee that if the Committee does not add the
service to the Procurement List, the service will remain in the 8(a)
Program. The contractor will graduate from the 8(a) Program in June,
1998, so it would not be eligible for subsequent contracts for the
service whether or not the Committee adds it to the Procurement List.
Consequently, any impact the contractor suffers will not be a result of
the addition of the service to the Procurement List.
The Committee's Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Program, like the 8(a)
Program, is the result of Congressional desire to use the Federal
procurement system to assist specific disadvantaged groups. The JWOD
Program's target population, people who are blind or have severe
disabilities, has an unemployment rate well above that of other groups.
Consequently, the Committee believes it should maximize the creation of
jobs for its target population where it can do so within the limits of
its statute and regulations. The 8(a) Program is considerably larger
than the JWOD Program and, because it imposes no constraints on the
types of individuals employed by participating firms, has access to a
broader range of contracts than does the JWOD Program. Consequently,
the Committee believes the 8(a) Program can more easily locate
contracting opportunities for its target population than the JWOD
Program can.
After consideration of the material presented to it concerning
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the commodity and
services and impact of the additions on the current or most recent
contractors, the Committee has determined that the commodity 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 commodity and
services to the Government.
2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on current
contractors for the commodity and services.
3. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the commodity 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 commodity and services proposed for
addition to the Procurement List.
Accordingly, the following commodity and services are hereby added
to the Procurement List:
Commodity
Shirt, Sleeping
8415-00-890-2099
8415-00-890-2100
8415-00-890-2101
8415-00-890-2102
8415-00-890-2103
8415-00-935-6855
(Additional 10% of the Government's requirement)
Services
Base Supply Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma
Central Facility Management, The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library,
Atlanta, Georgia
Food Service and Food Service Attendant, Postwide, Fort Hood, Texas
Janitorial/Custodial, VA Outpatient Clinic, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
Janitorial/Custodial, Surface Warfare Officer School Navy Buildings, 52
C.H.I., 138 C.H.I., 370 C.P., 446 C.P., 1164 C.H.I., 1183 C.H.I., 1268
C.H.I. & 1284 C.H.I, Newport, Rhode Island
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.
Deletions
I certify that the following action will not have 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.
2. The action will not have a severe economic impact on future
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 deleted from the
Procurement List.
After consideration of the relevant matter presented, the Committee
has determined that the commodities and service listed below are no
longer suitable for procurement by the Federal Government under 41
U.S.C. 46-48c and 41 CFR 51-2.4.
Accordingly, the following commodities and service are hereby
deleted from the Procurement List:
COMMODITIES
Cover, Generator Set
6115-00-945-7545
Cabinet, Storage
7125-00-378-4261
7125-00-449-6862
7125-00-693-4352
Pillowcase
7210-00-081-1380
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Service
Commissary Shelf Stocking and Custodial, Naval Station, Charleston,
South Carolina.
Beverly L. Milkman,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 98-13728 Filed 5-21-98; 8:45 am]
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