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at (301) 427–8373 at least 5 days prior 

to the meeting date. 

Dated: April 16, 2014. 

Jean-Pierre Ple ́, 

Acting Director, Office of International 

Affairs, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09029 Filed 4–18–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Additions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Additions to the Procurement 

List. 

SUMMARY: This action adds products and 

services to the Procurement List that 

will be furnished by nonprofit agencies 

employing persons who are blind or 

have other severe disabilities. 

DATES: Effective Date: 5/20/2014. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 

10800, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barry S. Lineback, Telephone: (703) 

603–7740, Fax: (703) 603–0655, or email 

CMTEFedReg@AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additions 

On 12/20/2013 (78 FR 77105–77106) 

and 2/14/2014 (79 FR 8943–8944), the 

Committee for Purchase From People 

Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 

published notices of proposed additions 

to the Procurement List. 

After consideration of the material 

presented to it concerning capability of 

qualified nonprofit agencies to provide 

the products and services and impact of 

the additions on the current or most 

recent contractors, the Committee has 

determined that the products and 

services 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 

products and services to the 

Government. 

2. The action will result in 

authorizing small entities to furnish the 

products and services to the 

Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 8501–8506) in 

connection with the products and 

services proposed for addition to the 

Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

Accordingly, the following products 

and services are added to the 

Procurement List: 

Products 

Bungee Rope, Flexible, w/Crimped Loops 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0127—3 feet, Black 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0129—5 feet, Black 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0192—3 feet, 

Camouflage 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0193—3 feet, Olive Drab 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0194—3 feet, Orange 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0195—3 feet, Tan 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0196—5 feet, 

Camouflage 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0197—5 feet, Olive Drab 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0198—5 feet, Orange 

NSN: 5340–00–NIB–0199—5 feet, Tan 

NPA: L.C. Industries for the Blind, Inc., 

Durham, NC 

Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS 

AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 

COVERAGE: B-List for the Broad 

Government Requirement as aggregated 

by the Defense Logistics Agency, 

Philadelphia, PA. 

Gauze, Petrolatum, Sterile, White, 36′′ x 3′′ 

NSN: 6510–01–362–4959 

NPA: Lighthouse Works, Orlando, FL 

Contracting Activity: DEFENSE LOGISTICS 

AGENCY TROOP SUPPORT, 

PHILADELPHIA, PA 

COVERAGE: C-List for 100% of the 

requirement of the Department of 

Defense, as aggregated by the Defense 

Logistics Agency Troop Support, 

Philadelphia, PA. 

Services 

Service Type/Location: Base Operations 

Support Service, National GeospatialIntelligence Agency, NGA Campus West, 

3200 S 2nd Street, St. Louis, MO 

NPAs: ServiceSource, Inc., Alexandria, VA 

(Prime), CW Resources, Inc., New 

Britain, CT (Subcontractor) 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF DEFENSE, 

NATIONAL GEOSPATIALINTELLIGENCE AGENCY, ARNOLD, 

MO 

The Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled (Committee) administers the 

AbilityOne Program in accordance with 

statutory and regulatory requirements. 

Committee regulations at 41 CFR 51–2– 

4 state that for a commodity or service 

to be suitable for addition to the 

Procurement List (PL) each of the 

following criteria must be satisfied: 

employment potential; nonprofit agency 

qualifications, capability, and level of 

impact on the current contractor for the 

commodity or service. 

Comments were received from the 

incumbent contractor. The contractor, 

an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), 

states that the Committee should not 

add the project to the PL, as it would 

result in severe adverse impact on their 

firm and that the service cannot be 

performed as required by the JavitsWagner-O’Day (JWOD) Act. The 

contractor lists several reasons why the 

service should not be added to the PL, 

including: The Base Operations Support 

(BOS) service is the ANC’s largest 

contract, representing over 35% of its 

FY12 sales revenue; the contractor has 

been a continuous supplier of the 

service since 1999 and relies on its track 

record of successful performance; ANCs 

are defined as ‘‘economically 

disadvantaged business enterprises,’’ 

which precludes the Committee from 

including its parent and affiliated 

corporations’ financial sales revenue 

when assessing impact; and the addition 

would violate the intent of various 

statutes and regulations that confer 

contracting benefits on ANCs. The 

contractor also asserts that the BOS 

service contract will not generate 

employment for people with severe 

disabilities because they claim it cannot 

be performed using a 75% severely 

disabled workforce which they say is 

required by the JWOD Act for each 

service; and, they assert that the 

proposed AbilityOne nonprofit agency 

is not capable of performing the service 

or doing so at a fair market price. 

Information provided by the 

contracting activity shows that the 

current contract for BOS service was 

awarded to the contractor as a large 

business in May 2009, following a full 

and open competition. The last option 

year ends on June 30, 2014. Following 

required government contracting 

protocols, the contracting activity 

conducted market research and 

developed an acquisition strategy 

seeking an AbilityOne nonprofit agency 

solution for the BOS service. The 

contracting activity has worked closely 

with the AbilityOne Program and the 

proposed nonprofit agency, and advises 

the Committee that it is fully confident 

of the technical capability of the 

nonprofit agency to perform the services 

using a workforce consisting of persons 

with severe disabilities. The contracting 

activity fully participated in the 

development of the recommended fair 


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market price considered by the 

Committee. 

In accordance with its regulations, the 

Committee considers whether the 

addition of an item to the PL would 

likely have a severe adverse impact on 

the current contractor by evaluating the 

financial data of the current contractor 

and its affiliated and parent 

corporations. The Committee does not 

separate contractors into ‘‘economically 

disadvantaged business enterprise’’ 

categories when reviewing the requested 

financial information. The contractor 

refused to provide the financial 

information of its affiliated and parent 

corporations. Following its standard 

practice, without such information, the 

Committee was unable to determine 

whether the addition of the service to 

the PL would result in severe adverse 

impact or if the contractor was more 

dependent on the sales; therefore, the 

Committee notified the contractor that it 

was proceeding with development of 

the project. 

The contractor claims that ANCs are 

granted certain contracting benefits 

which should prevent the Committee 

from adding this project to the PL. 

However, the Committee’s 

responsibility is to implement the JWOD 

Act and the Government’s policy to 

increase employment opportunities for 

people who are blind or severely 

disabled. The Committee’s authority to 

determine whether products or services 

are suitable for procurement from 

people with significant disabilities is 

not precluded by the limited contract 

preferences afforded to ANCs. The 

Committee determines that the JWOD 

Act coexists with and remains relevant 

in light of the statutes that afford limited 

contract preference to ANCs. 

The contractor is incorrect in alleging 

that the BOS service contract will not 

generate employment for people with 

severe disabilities since each function or 

service will not be performed using a 

75% severely disabled workforce, 

thereby demonstrating that the 

nonprofit agency is incapable of 

performing the services or doing so at a 

fair market price. The JWOD Act has no 

requirement that each service involved 

in a contract be performed using a 75% 

disabled workforce. The Committee 

determines which services and products 

provided by qualified nonprofit 

agencies employing people who are 

blind or severely disabled are suitable to 

be added to the PL. A qualified 

nonprofit agency is one that employs 

people who are blind or severely 

disabled for not less than 75% of the 

direct labor hours involved in 

furnishing all goods and services 

provided by the nonprofit agency during 

the fiscal year, including those 

furnished outside the AbilityOne 

Program. The nonprofit agencies 

proposed to perform the work will 

maintain compliance with the statutory 

direct labor ratio requirement. 

Moreover, the information available to 

the Committee convincingly documents 

that the BOS service will generate 

employment for people with severe 

disabilities; that the nonprofit agency is 

capable of performing the services; and 

that the service can be performed at a 

fair market price established by the 

Committee. 

Accordingly, after full consideration, 

the Committee has determined that the 

service in question is suitable for 

addition to the Procurement List. 

Service Type/Location: Janitorial Service, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Region 6, 

National Eagle and Wildlife Property 

Repository and Law Enforcement Office, 

(Except wildlife property storage area 

(warehouse)), 6550 Gateway Road, RMA, 

Building 128, Commerce City, CO 

NPA: North Metro Community Services for 

Developmentally Disabled, Westminster, 

CO 

Contracting Activity: DEPT OF THE 

INTERIOR, U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE 

SERVICE, CONTRACTING AND 

GENERAL SERVICES DIV, DENVER, CO 

Barry S. Lineback, 

Director, Business Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2014–09005 Filed 4–18–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P 

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Proposed Additions 

and Deletions 

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From 

People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled. 

ACTION: Proposed Additions to and 

Deletions from the Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing 

to add services to the Procurement List 

that will be provided by the nonprofit 

agency employing persons who are 

blind or have other severe disabilities, 

and deletes products previously 

furnished by such agency. 

DATES: Comments Must Be Received On 

Or Before: 5/20/2014. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, 1401 S. Clark Street, Suite 

10800, Arlington, Virginia 22202–4149. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT

COMMENTS CONTACT: Barry S. Lineback, 

Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703) 

603–0655, or email CMTEFedReg@

AbilityOne.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to 41 

U.S.C. 8503(a)(2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its 

purpose is to provide interested persons 

an opportunity to submit comments on 

the proposed actions. 

Additions 

If the Committee approves the 

proposed additions, the entities of the 

Federal Government identified in this 

notice will be required to provide the 

services listed below from the nonprofit 

agency employing persons who are 

blind or have other severe disabilities. 

The following services are proposed 

for addition to the Procurement List for 

provision by the nonprofit agency listed: 

Services 

Service Type/Locations: Building Operations 

and Maintenance Services 

GSA, PBS, Region 2, Theodore Roosevelt 

US Courthouse, South Wing, Emanuel 

Celler U.S. Courthouse, North Wing, 225 

Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, NY 

GSA, PBS, Region 2, U.S. Post Office and 

Conrad B. Duberstein, Bankruptcy 

Courthouse, 271 Cadman Plaza East, 

Brooklyn, NY 

NPA: Fedcap Rehabilitation Services, Inc., 

New York, NY 

Contracting Activity: GSA/Public Buildings 

Service, Brooklyn, NY 

Deletions 

The following products are proposed 

for deletion from the Procurement List: 

Products 

Calendars 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9589—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, JR Planner, 6-hole, 

Burgundy 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9730—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, Planner, 7-hole, Desert 

Camouflage 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9730L—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, Planner, 7-hole, Desert 

Camouflage 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9702—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, LE Planner, 3-hole, Navy 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9713—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, JR Deluxe Planner, 6-hole, 

Digital Camouflage, Black 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9716—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole, Navy 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9716L—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole, Navy 

w/logo 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9713L—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, JR Deluxe Planner, 6-hole, 

Digital Camouflage, Black w/logo 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9702L—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, LE Planner, 3-hole, Navy 

w/logo 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9639—DAYMAX 

System, 2013, GLE Planner, 7-hole, 

Burgundy 

NSN: 7530–01–587–9671—DAYMAX 


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