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  • 2025-06195 — Procurement List; Deletions
    Type:Notice
    Citation:90 FR 15455
    Reading Time:about 4 minutes

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled has decided to remove certain products and services from their Procurement List. This means items like paper bowls from The Lighthouse for the Blind in New Orleans, Inc. and services like medical transcription and switchboard operations, often provided by nonprofit agencies, can now be sourced from other suppliers. The removal is effective from May 11, 2025, and is not expected to heavily impact small businesses. This decision allows more variety in who can supply these products and services to government agencies.

    Simple Explanation

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled is letting other companies sell certain things, like paper bowls, to the government instead of just nonprofits that help people who are blind or have disabilities. This change starts on May 11, 2025, and it should give more choices for where the government can buy these things.

  • 2025-04113 — Procurement List; Additions and Deletions
    Type:Notice
    Citation:90 FR 12153
    Reading Time:about 3 minutes

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled is making changes to its Procurement List. These changes include adding custodial services provided by MVLE, Inc. at the US Army's Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Springs, MD, and removing janitorial services at the Bureau of Land Management's Las Vegas District Office, which were previously provided by Opportunity Village. The amendments aim to support nonprofit agencies that employ people with disabilities by authorizing them to provide services to the government, without significantly impacting small businesses.

    Simple Explanation

    The Committee that helps people with disabilities get jobs is adding new cleaning work for a special research building and taking away some janitor jobs from another office. They're doing this to help more people with disabilities find work, but they don't say much about how much it will cost or why they picked these jobs.

  • 2025-03691 — Procurement List; Additions and Deletions
    Type:Notice
    Citation:90 FR 11519
    Reading Time:about 11 minutes

    This notice from the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled outlines changes to the Federal Procurement List. It adds some new products and services that will be provided by nonprofit agencies employing people with disabilities, while removing others that these agencies previously supplied. The additions include products like various types of slings and services such as postal and custodial operations for the Air Force. Meanwhile, deletions include items like first aid kits and janitorial services previously supplied by these nonprofits. These changes aim to provide more job opportunities for people with disabilities without significantly affecting small entities.

    Simple Explanation

    The government made a list of things they need, and they decided to have special groups of people, like those who can't see well or who find it hard to do some things, help make and do some of these things. They added some new jobs and things these groups will do, and they also took away some old jobs and things they were doing before.

  • 2025-02021 — Procurement List; Proposed Additions and Deletions
    Type:Notice
    Citation:90 FR 8705
    Reading Time:about 11 minutes

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled is suggesting changes to the Procurement List. They plan to add new products that will be supplied by nonprofit agencies employing individuals with blindness or severe disabilities. At the same time, they propose deleting certain products and services that were previously supplied by these agencies. The public can submit comments on these proposed changes until March 2, 2025.

    Simple Explanation

    The Committee wants to add some new things that blind people and those with disabilities can help make and sell, and they also want to stop selling some old things those people used to make. People can say if they like or don't like these changes until March 2, 2025.