RSA

Rehabilitation Services Administration; Part of the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; administers many disability programs including the Rehabilitation Services Act.

Quality Manual

Document outlining the total quality assurance program to be incorporated in production of products.

Qualified Nonprofit Agency

Agency that meets regulatory requirements to produce products and services under the AbilityOne Program; the terminology used in the JWOD Act to refer to community rehabilitation agencies.

Priority

A legislative/regulatory law under the AbilityOne Program providing a priority system in the procurement of federal government commodities. The priority is extended to the Federal Prison Industries, NIB and SourceAmerica, in that order, for products; however, there is no priority for services. They are first come, first served.

Procuring Advisory Committee

NIB and associated agency personnel who make marketing recommendations for the Military Resale Program.

PMMR or MRPM

Project Manager for the Military Resale Program

PL

Procurement List; the U.S. AbilityOne Commission maintains a Procurement List of products and services that have been placed in the AbilityOne Program, as referenced in FAR Subparts 8.0 and 8.7. Once a product or service is on the PL, the government must buy it from the organization designated by the Commission until the government no […]

PM

Product Manager OR Pricing Memoranda; SourceAmerica Program Management Division