[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 48, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

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



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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) Supplies which are on the Procurement List maintained by 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 which are on the Procurement List 

maintained by 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.

    (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; 69 FR 34229, June 18, 2004]