As National Disability Employment Awareness Month ends, SourceAmerica emphasizes progress and urges further action to enhance employment for individuals with disabilities.

Kidney disease advocates are endorsing bipartisan legislation aimed at modernizing the AbilityOne program to enhance job opportunities for individuals with disabilities.

At the recent Grassroots Advocacy Conference, SourceAmerica championed the cause of disability employment, hosting self-advocates and policymakers in support of the AbilityOne Program.

The bill would be the first major update to AbilityOne in nearly 50 years.

The bill would be the first major update to AbilityOne in nearly 50 years.

The settlement resolves allegations that a federal contractor made false statements about compliance with disability-employment labor requirements before renewal of a Defense Manpower Data Center tech...

Connecting self-advocates with lawmakers, the Grassroots Advocacy Conference highlights the achievements of the AbilityOne Program in disability employment.

The AbilityOne Commission countered that “many of the compliance concerns cited by [the Office of Special Counsel] occurred during periods of operational disruption, including the pandemic.”

The deviation comes on the heels of a letter from GSA to AbilityOne seeking more information about the products they are selling through the schedule contracts.

GSA is asking the AbilityOne Commission to submit a report by mid-November detailing how it's ensuring all products its partners sell are domestically sourced.

GSA is asking the AbilityOne Commission to submit a report by mid-November detailing how it's ensuring all products its partners sell are domestically sourced.

You should care. Category: AbilityOne, SDVOSB preference, process issue Date: 12 January 2026 URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423857 Magellan protested the VA’s plan to sole-source Lexington VAMC…

GSA alleges AbilityOne listed China-made technology products as American-made, demanding a sweeping audit of 18,000 items on the federal procurement list.

GSA alleges AbilityOne listed China-made technology products as American-made, demanding a sweeping audit of 18,000 items on the federal procurement list.

### _You should care._ **Category:** AbilityOne, SDVOSB preference, process issue **Date:** 12 January 2026 **URL:** https://www.gao.gov/products/b-423857 Magellan protested the VA’s plan to sole-source Lexington VAMC switchboard services to an AbilityOne nonprofit rather than consider an SDVOSB set-aside. Like similar disputes at VA facilities, the case turns on the Department of Veterans Affairs Contracting Preference Consistency Act. Magellan argued the VA should have applied the Veterans First rule of two and considered an SDVOSB award. GAO disagreed because the switchboard services had been on the AbilityOne procurement list since 1998 and had long been performed by an AbilityOne-qualified nonprofit agency for the blind. That made the services a covered product or service under the Consistency Act, which overrides the ordinary SDVOSB preference for this category of requirement. The decision underscores that where a VA service has long been on the AbilityOne list and the statutory exception applies, the agency is required to stay with AbilityOne rather than reopen the question as a Veterans First set-aside. #### The protest is denied. Digest Agency properly procured switchboard services from AbilityOne contractor, rather than from service-disabled veteran-owned small business, where The Department of Veterans Affairs Contracting Preference Consistency Act requires the agency to procure services from the AbilityOne procurement list of supplies and services provided by qualified non-profit agencies for the blind or disabled.