[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 83 (Tuesday, April 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18267-18268]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-08693]
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
Procurement List; Addition
AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Addition to from the Procurement List.
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SUMMARY: This action adds a service to the Procurement List that will
be furnished by nonprofit agencies employing persons who are blind or
have other severe disabilities.
DATES: Date added to the Procurement List: May 7, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 715, Arlington, Virginia, 22202-
4149.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael R. Jurkowski, Telephone: (703)
603-2117, Fax: (703) 603-0655, or email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Addition
On 3/15/2019, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind
or Severely Disabled published notice of proposed addition to the
Procurement List.
After consideration of the material presented to it concerning
capability of qualified nonprofit agencies to provide the service and
impact of the addition on the current or most recent contractors, the
Committee has determined that the service listed below are suitable for
procurement by the Federal Government under 41 U.S.C. 8501-8506 and 41
CFR 51-2.4.
Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification
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 service to the
Government.
2. The action will result in authorizing small entities to furnish
the service to the Government.
3. There are no known regulatory alternatives which would
accomplish the objectives of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 U.S.C.
8501-8506) in connection with the service proposed for addition to the
Procurement List.
The Committee finds good cause to dispense with the 30-day delay in
the effective date normally required by the Administrative Procedure
Act. See 5 U.S.C. 553(d). This addition to the Committee's Procurement
List is effectuated due to the request from the federal agency based on
its need to complete onboarding activities and enroll employees of the
nonprofit agency and its subcontractor in a training class that
commences on May 13, 2019. According to the contracting office, the
agency must award the contract not later than May 7, 2019. The Federal
customer contacted, and has worked diligently with the AbilityOne
Program to fulfill this service need under the AbilityOne Program to
ensure enrollment in this class. To ensure enrollment in the training
class and avoid performance disruption, this addition to the
Procurement List must be effective on May 7, 2019, allowing seven (7)
days for comments. The Committee also published a notice of proposed
Procurement List addition in the Federal Register on March 15, 2019,
and did not receive any comments.
The Commission is making the good cause determination based on the
purchasing agency's ``urgency of conditions coupled with demonstrated
and unavoidable limitation of time,'' and the primary consideration in
invoking the good cause exception is for the ``convenience or necessity
of the [agency and nonprofit employees] affected'' in line with
Congressional intent. See 92 Cong.Rec. 5650-51 (1946). As such, this
expedited effective date for this Procurement List addition will not
create a public hardship and has limited effect on the public at large,
but, rather, will create new jobs for people with significant
disabilities in the AbilityOne Program who otherwise face challenges
locating employment. Moreover, this addition will enable Federal
customer operations to continue without interruption.
End of Certification
Accordingly, the following service is added to the Procurement
List:
Service Type: IT Support Services (Program Integration Lifecycle
Support)
Mandatory for: Defense Health Agency, Solution Delivery Division,
Falls Church, VA
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Mandatory Source of Supply: Global Connections to Employment, Inc.,
Pensacola, FL
Contracting Activity: Defense Health Agency
Michael R. Jurkowski,
Deputy Director, Business & PL Operations.
[FR Doc. 2019-08693 Filed 4-29-19; 8:45 am]
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