[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 21, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15137-15138]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6904]


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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Logistics Agency


Cost Sharing Cooperative Agreement Applications

AGENCY: Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).

ACTION: Notice of solicitation for cost sharing cooperative agreement 
applications.

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SUMMARY: The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) issued a solicitation for 
cooperative agreement applications (SCAA) to assist state and local 
governments and other nonprofit eligible entities in establishing or 
maintaining procurement technical assistance centers (PTACs). These 
centers help business firms market their goods and services to the 
Department of Defense (DoD), other federal agencies, and state and/or 
local government agencies. Notice of the issuance of this SCAA was 
published in the March 17, 1999 Federal Register (Volume 64, Number 51, 
page 13176). This solicitation governs the submission of applications 
for calendar years 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002 and applies to all 
applications from all eligible entities, including Indian Economic 
Enterprises and Indian Tribal Organizations.
    Pursuant to Section ``I'' paragraph ``J'' of the SCAA, notice is 
hereby given that limited additional funds are anticipated to be 
available in order to accept applications for additional new programs. 
However, applications will only be accepted from eligible entities that 
propose programs that will provide service to areas that are not 
currently receiving service from an existing program. This provision 
prohibiting applications from new programs proposing to service areas 
currently receiving service from an existing program is absolute, and 
the provisions of Section V, paragraph D. of the SCAA do not apply 
should a new applicant propose to service an area currently receiving 
service from an existing program. In addition, Section II of the SCAA 
is amended by changing the definition of a statewide program so as to 
prohibit more than one statewide program per state. Section V of the 
SCAA is amended to include situations where more than one applicant 
applies as a statewide program for an individual state, as an 
unacceptable duplicate coverage situation. Section VIII of the SCAA is 
amended by adding a new paragraph F. ``LIMITATIONS'' which limits the 
amount of DoD's funding for any option year to no more than that which 
was obligated for the base year award and the DoD percentage of total 
net program cost for any option year shall not be greater than DoD's 
percentage of total net program cost for the base year award. The March 
15, 1999 SCAA is amended as follows; all applications submitted after 
March 10, 2000 and all PTAC awards made and options exercised after 
April 1, 2000 shall be governed by this amended version of the SCAA:
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Section II

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    30. Statewide program. A PTA program that provides statewide 
coverage. There can be only one statewide program per state. In the 
event more than one applicant applies as a statewide program, the 
procedure in Section V, paragraph D. will be followed. For the purpose 
of the funding limitations appearing in Section I, paragraph F.3., PTA 
programs providing services to all the reservations within one of the 
twelve Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Area Offices (which are Aberdeen, 
Albuquerque, Anadarko, Billings, Eastern, Juneau, Minneapolis, 
Muskogee, Navajo, Phoenix, Portland and Sacramento) and at least 50 per 
cent of the reservations of another BIA Area Office will be considered 
a statewide program.
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Section V

D. Duplicate Coverage

    Applications whose proposals produce a duplicate coverage situation 
will be reviewed by the GO to determine if the extent of duplicate 
coverage is acceptable or unacceptable. A duplicate coverage situation 
shall be deemed unacceptable if any of the following occur:
    1. An applicant proposes to provide PTA services to more than 25 
percent of the total number of counties that another applicant is 
proposing to service.
    2. Two or more applicants cumulatively propose to provide PTA 
service to more than 25 percent of the total number of counties that 
another individual applicant proposes to service.
    3. Two or more applicants apply as statewide programs servicing the 
same state.
    Applicants that propose to provide service primarily to 
reservations (at least 75% of their total program cost will be 
dedicated to providing service to reservations) will not be considered 
to duplicate applicants that do not propose to provide service 
primarily to reservations, notwithstanding the areas either propose to 
service.
    When the GO determines that an unacceptable duplicate coverage 
situation exists, only the applicant(s) determined to be most 
meritorious among those proposing the duplicate coverage situation 
using the selection procedures listed in Section VI will be considered 
for award.
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Section VIII

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F. Limitations

    The total mount of DoD funding for any program in any option year 
shall not exceed the total amount obligated by DoD for the base year 
award. The percentage of DoD's share of total net program cost for any 
option year shall not be greater than the percentage of DoD's share of 
total net program cost for the base year award.
(end of SCAA revisions)

DATES: On line submissions of applications for new programs will be 
available on or about March 20, 2000. The closing date for the 
submission of applications is May 5, 2000.
    The SCAA is currently available for review on the Internet Website: 
http://www.dla.mil/scaa
    Printed copies are not available for distribution.
    Eligible entities may only submit an application as outlined in 
Section IV of the SCAA. In order to comply with the electronic portion 
of the submission, applicants must obtain a log in account and password 
from DLA. To obtain

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these, applicants must furnish the Grants Officer written evidence that 
they meet the criteria of an eligible entity as set forth in paragraph 
14 of Section II of the SCAA.
    This information should be mailed or otherwise delivered to: HQ, 
Defense Logistics Agency, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization 
Office (DDAS Room 1127), 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Ft. Belvoir, VA 
22060-6221.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have any questions or need 
additional information please contact Ms. Diana Maykowskyj at (703) 
767-1656.

Anthony J. Kuders,
Deputy Director, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.
[FR Doc. 00-6904 Filed 3-20-00; 8:45 am]
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