Computers for Learning

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Computers for Learning
Jaime HernandezArea Property Officer
(APO)Personal Property Management (PPM)General
Services Administration
June 2009
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Value to the Customer

• Understanding the value of the Computers for
  Learning Program for children throughout the
  Nation
• Understanding the value of the Computers for
  Learning Program to agencies

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Executive Order 12999

• Educational Technology Ensuring Opportunity for
  all Children in the Next Century
• Educationally useful Federal equipment is a
  vital national resourceis a valuable tool for
  computer education. to the extent
  possibleprotect and safeguard such equipment,
  particularly when declared excess or surplus, so
  that it may be transferred, if appropriate,
  pursuant to this order.

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EO 12999 Statutory Authority

• Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of
  1980, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3701et seq.)
• Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
  of 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377
• National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
  Year 1996, Public Law 104-106

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Primary Authority

• Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of
  1980, as amended (15 U.S.C. 3701et seq.)
• 15 USC 3710(i) Research equipment
• the head of any Federal agency or department,
  may loan, lease, or give research equipment that
  is excess to the needs of the laboratory, agency,
  or department to an educational institution or
  nonprofit organization
• Title of ownership shall transfer with a gift
  under this section.

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Secondary Authority

• Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
  of 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, recodified in 40
  USC 549
• The Administrator of General Services.may
  transfer property to a state agency..personal
  property that
• (i) is under the control of an executive agency
  and
• (ii) has been determined to be surplus property.
  

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Secondary Authority

• Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
  of 1949, ch. 288, 63 Stat. 377, recodified in 40
  USC 549
• The Administrator shall transfer to a state
  agencyfor distribution through donation within
  the State
• (A) to a public agency for a public purpose,
  including . education or
• (B) for purposes of educationto a nonprofit
  educationalinstitution or organization .
• (iii) a school, college, or university
• (iv) a school for the mentally retarded or
  physically handicapped
• (v) a child care center

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EO 12999 Transfer Priorities

• .all agencies shall give highest preference to
  schools and nonprofit organizationsin the
  transfer, through gift or donation, of
  educationally useful Federal equipment.
• preference to schools and nonprofit
  organizations located in the Federal enterprise
  communities and empowerment zones

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EO 12999 Transfer Options

• (1) conveying research equipment directly to the
  school or organization pursuant to 15 U.S.C.
  3710(i) or
• (2) reporting excess equipment to the General
  Services Administration (GSA) for donation when
  declared surplus in accordance with section
  203(j) of the Federal Property and Administrative
  Services Act of 1949, as amended, 40 U.S.C.
  484(j).

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Definitions

• Schoolsindividual public or private education
  institutions encompassing prekindergarten through
  twelfth grade, as well as public school
  districts.
• "Educationally useful Federal equipmentcomputers
  and related peripheral tools including
  telecommunications and research equipmentfor use
  in prekindergarten, elementary, middle, or
  secondary school education.

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GSAs Role..

• Facilitate transfers
• Most agencies prefer Stevenson Wydler
  transfers
• Maintain CFL website/GSAXcess module to support
  these agency transfers
• Promote availability of these e-tools

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School Demographics
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Registrant Validation

• For schools
• National Center for Education Statistics
• For non-profit organizations
• Certification statement

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If school registrants dont know their NCES
number, the NCES website has a robust search
engine
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CFL Module in GSAXcess

• Established to
• Facilitate direct transfers
• Through the CFL module
• After the fact, through the Post Transaction
  Module (PTM)
• Allow recording of transfers for compilation of
  the Non-federal Recipients Report

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Through the CFL Module

• Agency
• All agency actions completed within GSAXcess
• Reports available items
• View school requests
• Allocate property
• School
• Screens available inventory
• Selects items desired for transfer and proceeds
  through checkout

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The CFL Module.

• CFL transfer transactions process within
  GSAXcess
• Email advisory that property has been requested
• Allocation
• Transfer order generation
• To school for signature
• Copy to agency

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The CFL Module.

• Transfer process
• Agency signs transfer order
• School picks up property or arranges for shipment
• Agency documents transfer

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After the Transfer

• System Reporting
• Reports available to agencies to document
  property processing
• System generates CFL portion of agencys annual
  Non-Federal Recipients Report

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Post Transaction Module

• GSAXcess process to document transfers to
  schools outside the CFL web program
• Also included on all agency reports, including
  Non-Federal Recipients Report

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Reporting Property

• Specified Federal Supply Classes will activate
  special reporting fields
• Included amongst these will be a field to select
  if the property is to be offered via CFL 

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CFL FSCs

• 7010 Laptops and Desk Top systems
• 7020 CPU -- Analog
• 7021 CPU -- Digital
• 7022 CPU -- Hybrid
• 7025 Monitors, Printers and other Peripherals
• 7030 Software
• 7035 Servers
• 7040 Punched Card Equipment
• 7045 ADP Supplies
• 7050 ADP Components

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For Further Detailed Assistance.

• Area Property Officers located throughout the
  Nation
• www.gsa.gov/apo
• GSAXcess HelpDesk
• 1-866-333-7472
• gsaxcesshelp_at_gsa.gov

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Questions