84 FR 18267 - Procurement List; Addition

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.

[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 83 (Tuesday, April 30, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18267-18268]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[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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