Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

Committee operations versus AbilityOne procurement

Federal agencies buy products and services from AbilityOne participating nonprofits under a statutory procurement preference. Those purchases are usually awarded by the buying agencies, not by CGAC 338. $9,317,138.78 through FY2026 is what the Committee itself obligated on 23 awards—its own administrative and related instruments. Treating this figure as “all AbilityOne spending” would collapse a government-wide procurement channel into a 23-row committee ledger.

Twenty-three awards against $9.3 million implies about $405,093 per award. That high mean on a tiny count fits a small policy body buying modest support, not a catalog of janitorial and skivvy-kit contracts across the government. The packet has no median and no list of participating nonprofits.

What 23 awards omit

Employment counts at participating nonprofits, product-list additions, and project-file prices are AbilityOne program statistics. They are not these 23 USAspending rows. A year with more federal AbilityOne purchases does not automatically raise $9,317,138.78. A Committee IT contract can raise it with no change in the procurement list.

Committee staff salaries generally never appear as awards. The $9.3 million understates the Committee’s full operating cost if a reader expected the award file to equal the appropriation. It is complete as an awarding-agency ledger for CGAC 338.

Questions

How much has the AbilityOne Committee obligated on USAspending?

The Committee for Purchase from People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled shows $9,317,138.78 in obligations through FY2026 across 23 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 338 is the filter. That total is the Committee’s own award book, not government-wide AbilityOne procurement. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 338 is the source for the current 23-award book.

What is the average Committee award?

Dividing $9,317,138.78 by 23 awards yields about $405,093. The packet has no median. A small administrative book produces a high mean on a low count. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 338?

338 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Committee. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/338/. Agencies that buy AbilityOne products use their own CGACs on those purchases. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $9.3 million all federal AbilityOne spending?

No. Most AbilityOne purchases are awarded by other agencies. This page reports only CGAC 338’s $9,317,138.78 on 23 awards through FY2026. Outlays are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.