SPECIAL NOTICE
99 -- New Category for Commercial Market Services – Recycling-related services
- Notice Date
- 7/30/2013
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 339999
— All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing
- Contracting Office
- Department of Justice, Federal Prison Industries/UNICOR, Research, Activation & Corporate Support, 320 First St., N.W., Washington, District of Columbia, 20534
- ZIP Code
- 20534
- Solicitation Number
- MRACS-10-2013
- Archive Date
- 9/14/2013
- Point of Contact
- Erika N. Farmer, Phone: 2023053925, Kenneth N. Gould, Phone: 2023053951
- E-Mail Address
-
erika.farmer@usdoj.gov, kgould@central.unicor.gov
(erika.farmer@usdoj.gov, kgould@central.unicor.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- In furtherance of the Federal Prison Industries, Inc. (FPI) Board of Directors' directive to seek and pursue the creation of inmate jobs without mandatory source, this notice announces the intent of the FPI Board to approve an additional type of service which FPI will perform outside the Federal market. FPI has received approval from its Board of Directors to establish a seventh commercial market service category, that of services in conjunction with recycling initiatives. This new authority would assist FPI's goal to create more green jobs for inmates. It would also allow FPI to provide a viable option in the commercial market for products that may otherwise be disposed in landfills. In September of 1998, FPI received approval from its Board of Directors and legal concurrence from the U.S. Department of Justice to provide commercial market services (CMS) in four specific service areas. The areas include: 1) work that is currently being performed outside the United States; 2) services with a recognized labor shortage that causes companies to outsource work to foreign countries; 3) new services that a company otherwise intends to contract outside the United States; and 4) services that were performed by non-Federal Bureau of Prisons inmates (such as District of Columbia inmates) for non-Federal agencies. On August 25, 2005, FPI requested and received approval from its Board of Directors for two additional categories in the area of commercial market services: 5) service work for state and local governments and 6) service work that would be economically unfeasible to perform without the availability of inmate labor. In May, 2013, FPI received approval from its Board of Directors to establish a seventh commercial market service category, that of services in conjunction with recycling initiatives. This new authority would assist FPI's goal to create more green jobs for inmates. It would also allow FPI to provide a viable option in the commercial market for products that may otherwise be disposed in landfills. As with other FPI CMS projects, there will be no displacement of United States workers as a result of FPI's work, nor will any potential partnership hinder the development of the domestic market. This new category of commercial market services would allow FPI to assume a more prominent role in supporting environmentally-friendly green initiatives, thereby strengthening its public stewardship role, while simultaneously creating more skills training opportunities for inmates. Interested parties are invited to comment on this notice. Comments will be due within 30 days of the date of publication in the FedBizOpps. All comments received in response to this announcement will be provided to FPI's Board of Directors in their entirety. These comments will be reviewed by the Board prior to making a final decision to proceed, adding the new category of CMS as outlined herein. Comments or other correspondence should be addressed to: Chief Marketing, Research, and Corporate Support, Federal Prison Industries, Inc., 320 First S treet, NW, Washington, D.C. 20534.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOJ/FPI-UNICOR/PRA/MRACS-10-2013/listing.html)
- Record
- SN03132006-W 20130801/130731000152-0c28fe3f5b1d4e69e48e80eedf7978f1 (fbodaily.com)
- Source
-
FedBizOpps Link to This Notice
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