[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 41USC47]
TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 47. Duties and powers of the Committee
(a) Procurement list: publication in Federal Register; additions and
removals
(1) The Committee shall establish and publish in the Federal
Register a list (hereafter in sections 46 to 48c of this title referred
to as the ``procurement list'') of--
(A) the commodities produced by any qualified nonprofit agency
for the blind or by any qualified nonprofit agency for other
severely handicapped, and
(B) the services provided by any such agency,
which the Committee determines are suitable for procurement by the
Government pursuant to sections 46 to 48c of this title. Such list shall
be established and published in the Federal Register before the
expiration of the thirty-day period beginning on Aug. 1, 1971, and shall
initially consist of the commodities contained, on such date, in the
schedule of blind-made products issued by the former Committee on
Purchases of Blind-Made Products under its regulations.
(2) The Committee may, by rule made in accordance with the
requirements of subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e) of section 553 of
title 5, add to and remove from the procurement list commodities so
produced and services so provided.
(b) Fair market price; price revisions
The Committee shall determine the fair market price of commodities
and services which are contained on the procurement list and which are
offered for sale to the Government by any qualified nonprofit agency for
the blind or any such agency for other severely handicapped. The
Committee shall also revise from time to time in accordance with
changing market conditions its price determinations with respect to such
commodities and services.
(c) Central nonprofit agency; designation
The Committee shall designate a central nonprofit agency or agencies
to facilitate the distribution (by direct allocation, subcontract, or
any other means) of orders of the Government for commodities and
services on the procurement list among qualified nonprofit agencies for
the blind or such agencies for other severely handicapped.
(d) Rules and regulations; blind-made products, priority
(1) The Committee may make rules and regulations regarding (A)
specifications for commodities and services on the procurement list, (B)
the time of their delivery, and (C) such other matters as may be
necessary to carry out the purposes of sections 46 to 48c of this title.
(2) The Committee shall prescribe regulations providing that--
(A) in the purchase by the Government of commodities produced
and offered for sale by qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind
or such agencies for other severely handicapped, priority shall be
accorded to commodities produced and offered for sale by qualified
nonprofit agencies for the blind, and
(B) in the purchase by the Government of services offered by
nonprofit agencies for the blind or such agencies for other severely
handicapped, priority shall, until the end of the calendar year
ending December 31, 1976, be accorded to services offered for sale
by qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind.
(e) Problems and production methods; study and evaluation
The Committee shall make a continuing study and evaluation of its
activities under sections 46 to 48c of this title for the purpose of
assuring effective and efficient administration of sections 46 to 48c of
this title. The Committee may study (on its own or in cooperation with
other public or nonprofit private agencies) (1) problems related to the
employment of the blind and of other severely handicapped individuals,
and (2) the development and adaptation of production methods which would
enable a greater utilization of the blind and other severely handicapped
individuals.
(June 25, 1938, ch. 697, Sec. 2, 52 Stat. 1196; Pub. L. 92-28, Sec. 1,
June 23, 1971, 85 Stat. 79.)
Amendments
1971--Pub. L. 92-28, in substituting subsecs. (a) to (e) for former
paragraph, among other changes: extended provisions to cover commodities
and services of agencies for the blind and other severely handicapped,
previously limited to brooms and mops and other suitable commodities
manufactured by agencies for the blind; inserted provisions incorporated
in subsecs. (a) and (e); incorporated in subsec. (b) provisions for
determination of fair market price and price revisions; incorporated in
subsec. (c) provisions for designation of a central nonprofit agency,
providing for distribution by direct allocation, subcontract, or any
other means; incorporated existing provisions in subsec. (d)(1), adding
par. (2) thereof; and struck out provision t
