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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Compliance Memorandum
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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General Guidance
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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.
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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
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Information Quality Guidelines
The Committee's policy on information quality.
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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.
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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.
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