[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 48, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 48CFR8.002]

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            TITLE 48--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATIONS SYSTEM
 
                CHAPTER 1--FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION
 
PART 8_REQUIRED SOURCES OF SUPPLIES AND SERVICES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  8.002  Priorities for use of Government supply sources.

    (a) Except as required by 8.003, or as otherwise provided by law, 
agencies shall satisfy requirements for supplies and services from or 
through the sources and publications listed below in descending order of 
priority--
    (1) Supplies. (i) Agency inventories;
    (ii) Excess from other agencies (see subpart 8.1);
    (iii) Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (see subpart 8.6);
    (iv) Products available from the Committee for Purchase from People 
Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see subpart 8.7);
    (v) Wholesale supply sources, such as stock programs of the General 
Services Administration (GSA) (see 41 CFR 101-26.3), the Defense 
Logistics Agency (see 41 CFR 101-26.6), the Department of Veterans 
Affairs (see 41 CFR 101-26.704), and military inventory control points;
    (vi) Mandatory Federal Supply Schedules (see subpart 8.4);
    (vii) Optional use Federal Supply Schedules (see subpart 8.4); and
    (viii) Commercial sources (including educational and nonprofit 
institutions).
    (2) Services. (i) Services available from the Committee for Purchase 
from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see subpart 8.7);
    (ii) Mandatory Federal Supply Schedules (see subpart 8.4);
    (iii) Optional use Federal Supply Schedules (see subpart 8.4); and
    (iv) Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (see subpart 8.6), or 
commercial sources (including educational and nonprofit institutions).
    (b) Sources other than those listed in paragraph (a) may be used as 
prescribed in 41 CFR 101-26.301 and in an unusual and compelling urgency 
as prescribed in 6.302-2 and in 41 CFR 101-25.101-5.

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    (c) The statutory obligation for Government agencies to satisfy 
their requirements for supplies available from the Committee for 
Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled also applies 
when contractors purchase the supply items for Government use.

[48 FR 42129, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 50 FR 1735, Jan. 11, 1985; 
50 FR 52429, Dec. 23, 1985; 54 FR 29280, July 11, 1989; 56 FR 15148, 
Apr. 15, 1991; 59 FR 53716, Oct. 25, 1994; 59 FR 67027, Dec. 28, 1994; 
61 FR 2630, Jan. 26, 1996; 66 FR 65367, Dec. 1, 2001. Redesignated and 
amended at 67 FR 56119, Aug. 30, 2002]