How do Department of Defense prime contractors get credit for subcontracting with AbilityOne Program nonprofit agencies?
Department of Defense (DoD) prime contractors are allowed to receive credit toward their small business subcontracting goals if they subcontract with qualified nonprofit agencies participating in the AbilityOne Program. This authority can be found at 10 US Code 2410(d). The Defense Logistics Agency has added a clause to its solicitations that informs officers of this opportunity to support AbilityOne-associated nonprofit agencies through their subcontracting programs. The clause (DLAD 52.215.9004) (DEC 1997) stems from DLA PROCLTR 97-34, the second in a series of guidance letters on supporting the AbilityOne Program. DLA was looking for innovative ways to work with the AbilityOne Program and to “provide AbilityOne agencies a maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors.” AbilityOne subcontracts are easiest to envision in terms of a facilities management contractor that subcontracts with an AbilityOne participating agency for janitorial or groundskeeping services; or
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