[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 186 (Wednesday, September 24, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55059-55060]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E8-22357]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Availability of the Bonneville Purchasing Instructions (BPI) and 
Bonneville Financial Assistance Instructions (BFAI)

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), DOE.

ACTION: Notice of document availability.

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SUMMARY: Copies of the Bonneville Purchasing Instructions (BPI), which 
contain the policy and establish the procedures that BPA uses in the 
solicitation, award, and administration of its purchases of goods and 
services, including construction, are available in printed form for 
$30, or without charge at the following Internet address: http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/business/bpi. Copies of the Bonneville Financial 
Assistance Instructions (BFAI), which contain the policy and establish 
the procedures that BPA uses in the solicitation, award, and 
administration of financial assistance instruments (principally grants 
and cooperative agreements), are available in printed form for $15 
each, or available without charge at the following Internet address: 
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/business/bfai.

ADDRESSES: Unbound copies of the BPI or BFAI may be obtained by sending 
a check for the proper amount to the Head of the Contracting Activity, 
Routing DGP-7, Bonneville Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, 
Portland, Oregon 97208-3621.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Manager, Communications, 1-800-622-
4519.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BPA was established in 1937 as a Federal 
Power Marketing Agency in the Pacific Northwest. BPA operations are 
financed from power revenues rather than annual appropriations. BPA's 
purchasing

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operations are conducted under 16 U.S.C. 832 et seq. and related 
statutes. Pursuant to these special authorities, the BPI is promulgated 
as a statement of purchasing policy and as a body of interpretative 
regulations governing the conduct of BPA purchasing activities. It is 
significantly different from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and 
reflects BPA's private sector approach to purchasing the goods and 
services that it requires. BPA's financial assistance operations are 
conducted under 16 U.S.C. 839 et seq. and 16 U.S.C. 839 et seq. The 
BFAI express BPA's financial assistance policy. The BFAI also comprise 
BPA's rules governing implementation of the principles provided in the 
following OMB circulars:
    A-21 Cost Principles for Educational Institutions.
    A-87 Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian Tribal 
Governments.
    A-102 Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local 
Governments.
    A-110 Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements 
with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit 
Organizations.
    A-122 Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations.
    A-133 Audits of States, Local Governments and Non-Profit 
Organizations.
    BPA's solicitations and contracts include notice of applicability 
and availability of the BPI and the BFAI, as appropriate, for the 
information of offerors on particular purchases or financial assistance 
transactions.

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on September 15, 2008.
Damian J. Kelly,
Manager, Purchasing/Property Governance.
 [FR Doc. E8-22357 Filed 9-23-08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6450-01-P