[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 41, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 41CFR51-1.2]

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           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
 
CHAPTER 51--COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY 
                                DISABLED
 
PART 51-1--GENERAL--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 51-1.2  Mandatory source priorities.

    (a) The JWOD Act mandates that commodities or services on the 
Procurement List required by Government entities be procured, as 
prescribed in this regulation, from a nonprofit agency employing persons 
who are blind or have other severe disabilities, at a price established 
by the Committee, if that commodity or service is available within the 
normal period required by that Government entity. Except as provided in 
paragraph (b) of this section, the JWOD Act has priority, under the 
provisions of 41 U.S.C. 48, over any other supplier of the Government's 
requirements for commodities and services on the Committee's Procurement 
List.
    (b) Federal Prison Industries, Inc. has priority, under the 
provisions of 18 U.S.C. 4124, over nonprofit agencies employing persons 
who are blind or have other severe disabilities in furnishing 
commodities for sale to the Government. All or a portion of the 
Government's requirement for a commodity for which Federal Prison 
Industries, Inc. has exercised its priority may be added to the 
Procurement List. However, such addition is made with the understanding 
that procurement under the JWOD Act shall be limited to that portion of 
the Government's requirement for the commodity which is not available or 
not required to be procured from Federal Prison Industries, Inc.
    (c) The JWOD Act requires the Committee to prescribe regulations 
providing that, in the purchase by the Government of commodities 
produced and offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies employing 
persons who are blind and nonprofit agencies employing persons who have 
other severe disabilities, priority shall be accorded to commodities 
produced and offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies for the 
blind. In approving the addition of commodities, to the Procurement 
List, the Committee accords priority to nonprofit agencies for the 
blind. Nonprofit agencies for the blind and nonprofit agencies employing 
persons with severe disabilities have equal priority for services.