[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 10611]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-03441]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Service Contract Inventory for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012

AGENCY: Office of the Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Department of 
Education.

ACTION: Notice of availability--FY 2012 service contract inventory.

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SUMMARY: Through this notice, the Secretary announces the availability 
of the Department of Education's service contract inventory on its Web 
site, at http://www2.ed.gov/fund/data/report/contracts/servicecontractinventoryappendix/servicecontractinventory.html. A 
service contract inventory is a tool for assisting an agency in better 
understanding how contracted services are being used to support mission 
and operations and whether the contractors' skills are being utilized 
in an appropriate manner.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrew Sullivan, U.S. Department of 
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20202 by phone at 
202-245-6450 or email at [email protected].
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the 
Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 743 of Division C of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, Public Law 111-117, requires 
civilian agencies, other than the Department of Defense, that are 
required to submit an inventory in accordance with the Federal 
Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105-270, 31 U.S.C. 501 
note) to submit their inventories to the Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy (OFPP) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by December 
31, 2012. In addition, section 743 requires these agencies, which 
include the Department of Education, to (1) Make the inventory 
available to the public by posting the inventory on its agency 
homepage, (2) provide OFPP with the Web site address (URL) on which the 
inventory is being posted so that the inventory can be linked to a 
central OMB Web page, and (3) publish in the Federal Register a notice 
announcing that the inventory is available to the public along with the 
name, telephone number, and email address of an agency point of 
contact.
    Through this notice, the Department announces the availability of 
its inventory on the following Web site: http://www2.ed.gov/fund/data/report/contracts/servicecontractinventoryappendix/servicecontractinventory.html. The point of contact for the inventory 
is provided under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section in this 
notice.
    Accessible Format: Individuals with disabilities can obtain this 
document in an accessible format (e.g., Braille, large print, or 
audiotape) on request to the program contact person listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
    Electronic Access to This Document: You can view this document, as 
well as all other documents of this Department published in the Federal 
Register, in text or Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) on the 
Internet at the following site: www.ed.gov/news/fedregister. To use PDF 
you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available free at this 
site.

    Note:  The official version of this document is the document 
published in the Federal Register. Free Internet access to the 
official edition of the Federal Register and the Code of Federal 
Regulations is available on GPO Access at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara/index.html.


    Program Authority:  Section 743 of Division C of the 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-117.

    Dated: February 8, 2013.
Jim Ropelewski,
Acting Deputy Chief Financial Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-03441 Filed 2-13-13; 8:45 am]
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