FedBizOpps Notice New Product - Socks offered to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other Federal Civilian Agencies as a Competitive New Product FSC code(s) 8840 and 8845

FedBizOpps Notice
New Product - Socks Offered to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Other Federal Civilian Agencies as a Competitive New Product FSC code(s) 8840 and 8845

This notice announces the FPI's plans to offer socks to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Other Federal Civilian Agencies as a competitive new product. Socks are classified under two Federal Stock Classifications (FSC) 8840 Hosiery, Handwear and Clothing Accessories, Men's, and FSC 8845 Hosiery, Handwear and Clothing Accessories, Women's. FPI will be competing for business to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other civilian agencies, without invoking its mandatory source. FPI will not supply socks to the Department of Defense that are currently being supplied in accordance with the Berry Amendment.

Once a product is sold competitively, by FPI, it remains a competitive product and will never be added to FPI's Schedule of Products as a mandatory source product. FPI will not attempt to exercise its mandatory source at some future point in time nor seek from its Board of Directors to expand production of the product by invoking the guidelines process at some later date. It has been previously determined by the FPI Board of Directors that whatever share of the market FPI acquires on a competitive basis will be deemed to be a reasonable share of the market within the meaning of 18 U.S.C. 4122(b)(2).

Interested parties have 30 days to comment or raise questions with FPI's Board of Directors. All written correspondence should be addressed to: Chief, Marketing, Research, and Corporate Support Branch, Federal Prison Industries, Inc., 320 First Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20534.