DoD Annual List of Product Categories Where Federal Prison Industries Has Significant Market Share
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Requires DoD buyers to use competitive or fair opportunity procedures for five product categories where Federal Prison Industries had more than 5% of the DoD market in fiscal year 2025. The listed categories are office furniture, household furnishings, bags and sacks, bottles and jars, and men’s underwear and nightwear. The notice affects DoD contracting officers, Federal Prison Industries, and suppliers that sell these products to the military. Starting May 16, 2026, DoD must include Federal Prison Industries in solicitations for these categories, consider timely offers from it, and compete the purchase rather than treating FPI as the default source.
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Key Changes
- Adds the fiscal year 2025 list of product categories where Federal Prison Industries has more than 5% of the DoD market.
- Requires competitive or fair opportunity procedures for office furniture, household furnishings, bags and sacks, bottles and jars, and men’s underwear and nightwear.
- Requires DoD buyers to include Federal Prison Industries in solicitations for listed categories and consider timely offers.
Obligations
What this law requires
Procure products in FSC 7110 Office Furniture, 7210 Household Furnishings, 8105 Bags and Sacks, 8125 Bottles and Jars, and 8420 Men’s Underwear and Nightwear using competitive or fair opportunity procedures under DFARS 208.602-70, rather than treating Federal Prison Industries as the default source.
Include Federal Prison Industries in the solicitation process when acquiring products in the listed significant-market-share categories: office furniture, household furnishings, bags and sacks, bottles and jars, and men’s underwear and nightwear.
Consider any timely offer submitted by Federal Prison Industries for the listed product categories and follow award procedures in FAR 8.602(a)(4)(ii) through (v).
For product categories not on the significant-market-share list, continue conducting acquisitions from Federal Prison Industries under FAR subpart 8.6, including market research and a written comparability determination where required by FAR 8.602.
Use competitive or fair opportunity procedures for product categories not on the significant-market-share list if the Federal Prison Industries product is not comparable in price, quality, or delivery time.