Priorities for Use of Supply Sources

Executive agencies must order supplies and services from the following sources in the order listed below, in accordance with the FAR 8.001 and FPMR 101-26.107:

Supplies

1.  Agency Inventories.
2.  Excess from other agencies (FAR Subpart 8.1).
3.  Federal Prison Industries Inc. (UNICOR) (see FAR Subpart 8.6).
4.  Products available from the Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see FAR Subpart 8.7).
5.  Wholesale supply sources, such as: stock programs of GSA (see 41 CFR 101-26.3), the Defense Logistics Agency (see 41 CFR 101-26.6), the Department of Veterans Affairs (see 41 CFR 101-26.704), and military inventory control points.
6.  Mandatory Federal Supply Schedules (see FAR Subpart 8.4).
7.  Optional-use Federal Supply Schedules (see FAR Subpart 8.4), and
8.  Commercial sources (including educational and non-profit institutions).

Services

1.  Services available from the Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (see FAR Subpart 8.7).
2.  Mandatory Federal Supply Schedules (see FAR Subpart 8.4).
3.  Optional-use Federal Supply Schedules (see FAR Subpart 8.4).
4.  Federal Prison Industries, Inc., (UNICOR) (see FAR Subpart 8.6) or other commercial sources (including educational and non- profit institutions).

Sources other than those listed above may be used as prescribed in FPMR 101-26.301 and in an unusual and compelling urgency as prescribed in FAR 6.302-2 and in FPMR 101-25.101-5.

Statutory obligations for Government agencies to satisfy their requirements for supplies available from the Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled also applies when contractors purchase the supply items for Government use.