Administrative Memorandum

Administrative Memorandum Number 1: Numbered Memoranda
This memorandum establishes a system of numbered memoranda which cover many of the procedures used in connection with the Committee's operations. It supersedes the previous Administrative Memorandum No. 1 dated April 29, 1993

Administrative Memorandum Number 2: Committee Meetings
This memorandum delineates the procedures for scheduling and conducting Committee meetings. It supersedes the memorandum on the same subject date June 15, 1997

Administrative Memorandum Number 3: Approval of Procurement List Additions or Deletions
This memorandum prescribes the procedures to be followed in obtaining Committee approval of the addition to or deletion from the Procurement List of a commodity or service. This memorandum supersedes Administrative Memorandum No. 3 dated February 15, 1987

Administrative Memorandum Number 4: Reconsideration of Committee Decisions
This memorandum describes the procedures followed when the Committee staff becomes aware of new and pertinent information and/or received a request on the basis of new and pertinent information for the Committee members to reconsider an earlier decision which approved the addition or deletion of a commodity or service to the Procurement List. This memorandum supersedes Administrative Memorandum No. 4 on the same subject dated May 19, 1995.

Administrative Memorandum Number 5: Delegation of Authority to Executive Director
This memorandum prescribes the delegation of the authority by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled to the Executive Director to Manage the activities of the Committee within the Committee's regulations and the policies established by the Committee. It supersedes the memorandum of January 24, 1990, on the same subject.

Administrative Memorandum Number 6: Safeguarding Confidential Commercial Information
This memorandum prescribes the procedures the Committee will follow prior to releasing documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552, which may contain confidential commercial information, in accord with the Committee FOIA regulation on business information, 41 CFR 51-8.8. This memorandum supersedes Administrative Memorandum No. 6, dated April 26, 1993, and Workshop Memorandum No. 14, dated January 24, 1991

Administrative Memorandum Number 7: Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson Responsibilities
This memorandum describes the responsibilities of the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. The Committee is an independent Federal agency charged with determining which products and services purchased by Federal entities should be procured from nonprofit agencies employing people who are blind or have other severe disabilities, establishing prices for those items, and carrying out various other related functions. The responsibilities laid out in this memorandum include duties prescribed by the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act and Committee regulations, as well as other functions.

Administrative Memorandum Number 8: Committee Officers
This memorandum prescribes the procedures for nominating and electing the Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson of the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. The memorandum also defines the length of terms of the officers and the procedures to be taken in the event of unsatisfactory performance of an officer.

Administrative Memorandum Number 9: Committee Voting Protocols
This memorandum describes the protocols to be followed by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled in voting on various decisions.

Administrative Memorandum Number 10: No cameras or recording devices policy
This memorandum is to establish the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled policy on cameras and recording devices.

Administrative Memorandum Number 11: Central Nonprofit Agency (CNA) Fee Ceiling Determination Process
This memorandum describes the process to be followed by the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled in determining the Central Nonprofit Agency (CNA) Fee Ceiling as authorized by 41 CFR 51-3.5. This memorandum incorporates the fee ceiling determination process into the Committee's series of administrative memoranda governing internal functions of the Committee. This is a new memorandum; no previous memoranda are superseded.

Compliance Memorandum

Compliance Memorandum Number 1: Qualification Procedure for Nonprofit Agencies
This memorandum prescribes the procedure a nonprofit agency must follow to become qualified to furnish either a commodity or a service under the Javits Wagner O'Day (JWOD) Act. This memorandum supersedes Workshop Memorandum No. 12, Verification of Nonprofit Status, dated January 22, 1986.

Compliance Memorandum Number 2: NISH Representation of Nonprofit Agencies Serving Individuals who are Blind
This memorandum provides guidance regarding the representation of nonprofit agencies serving individuals who are blind by NISH. This memorandum supersedes Workshop Memorandum No. 4 dated July 6, 1977

Compliance Memorandum Number 3: Documentation Requirements for NIB, NISH,and umbrella organizations
This memorandum delineates the record keeping procedures for National Industries for the Blind (NIB), NISH, and nonprofit umbrella organizations with subordinate elements that are treated as separate nonprofit agencies under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act.

Compliance Memorandum Number 4: Nonprofit Agency Organization-wide Direct Labor Ratio Requirements
Compliance Memorandum Number 4 concerns nonprofit agency organization-wide direct labor ratio requirements and provides interim guidance related to the percentage of the direct labor hours performed in a qualified nonprofit agency during any fiscal year.

Compliance Memorandum Number 5: AbilityOne Program Direct Labor Ratio Requirements
Compliance Memorandum Number 5 concerns AbilityOne Program direct labor ratio requirements and provides interim guidance for the direct labor hour ratios for total AbilityOne work completed by a qualified nonprofit agency and for work completed on individual AbilityOne projects.

Compliance Memorandum Number 6: Reporting Direct Labor Hours of Trainees
This memorandum provides guidance for reporting the direct labor hours of individuals employed in a nonprofit agency under Federal, State or local vocational training programs (hereinafter trainees). This memorandum supersedes Compliance Memorandum No. 4, dated February 26, 1993.

Compliance Memorandum Number 7: On Site Compliance Reviews
This memorandum outlines the procedures to be followed by the staff of the Committee for Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled, National Industries for the Blind (NIB) and NISH in conducting on site compliance reviews of nonprofit agencies participating in the Javits Wagner O'Day (JWOD) Program. It also explains what information the nonprofit agencies are responsible for providing during such reviews. In addition, this memorandum prescribes the follow up procedures for the Committee, NIB, or NISH staff member conducting the visit and the nonprofit agency being reviewed. This memorandum supersedes Compliance Memorandum #7 dated May 25, 1995.

Compliance Memorandum Number 9: Equal employment opportunity for people with disabilities at JWOD participating nonprofit agencies
This memorandum describes the provisions for ensuring equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities at all levels of employment in nonprofit agencies participating in the JWOD Program. The Committee seeks to ensure that participating nonprofit agencies establish procedures to encourage filling of all types of employment vacancies by promotion of qualified individuals who are blind or have other disabilities.

Operations Memorandum and Notices

Operations Memorandum Number 20: Temporary Administrative and General Support Services under the Basic Ordering Agreement
Operations Memorandum Number 20 provides the procedures to be followed by Federal customers, central nonprofit agencies, and nonprofit agencies when using the Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) to order or provide Temporary Administrative and General Support Services (referred to below as "temporary administrative services") that are on the Committee's Procurement List.

Pricing Memorandum and Notices

Pricing Memorandum Number 1 (PR-1): Fair Market Pricing Policy for AbilityOne (formerly JWOD) Products and Services

This memorandum summarizes the policies and practices established by the Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (the Committee) for determining Fair Market Prices (FMP) for products and services provided under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act [41 U.S.C. 46-48(c)].

Pricing Memorandum Number 2: Fair Market Price Determination for AbilityOne (formerly JWOD)Product Contracts
The purpose of Pricing Memorandum Number 2 (PR-2) is to prescribe policies and requirements for Fair Market Prices (FMP) recommendations for products or commodities supplied to the Federal Government in accordance with the terms of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act (41 USC 46-48c). Click here to view previous version PR-2 (Applicable to contracts signed before February 1, 2007)

Pricing Memorandum Number 3: Fair Market Price Determination for AbilityOne (formerly JWOD) Service Contracts
The purpose of Pricing Memorandum Number 3 (PR-3) is to prescribe policies and requirements for recommending the Fair Market Price (FMP) for an AbilityOne (formerly JWOD) service contract. Click here to view previous version PR-3(Applicable to contracts signed before February 1, 2007)

Pricing Memorandum Number 19: AbilityOne Price and Price-Related Impasse and Dispute Resolution Procedures
Pricing Memorandum Number 19 (Impasse Memo) prescribes procedures for resolving price and price-related disputes between parties in the exercise and administration of the AbilityOne (Formerly JWOD) Program.

General Guidance

Applicability of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act
Provides guidance on the jurisdiction of the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act for Federal entities.

CNA fee ceiling
The CNA fee ceiling page contains information on the CNA fee ceiling currently in effect. Any changes to this fee will be posted on this website.

FY 2009 CNA fee ceilings will remain the same as FY 2008

Information Quality Guidelines
The Committee's policy on information quality.

Memorandum on Requests for Information from NIB & NISH
This memorandum provides guidance to Federal entities handling requests for acquisition information from National Industries for the Blind (NIB) and NISH.

New Logo Interim GuidelinesThe AbilityOne name and logo are registered trademarks of the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (Committee). The Committee is the federal agency which oversees the AbilityOne (formerly Javits-Wagner-O'Day or JWOD) Program.