On February 19, 2022, the Pennsylvania Department of General Services (DGS) issued the list of machinery and equipment steel products which are exempt for calendar year 2022 under the PA Steel Products Procurement Act. The list was published in the Pa. Bulletin can be found here. The list for 2022 contains no new steel products but does contain one steel product that was inadvertently omitted from the 2020 and 2021 Exempt Machinery and Equipment Steel Products lists. The DGS’s 30-day comment period ends on March 21, 2022.
Each year DGS identifies specific steel products that have been recognized as not being produced in the U.S. in sufficient quantities to meet the previous year’s contract requirements. DGS uses the previous annual list and then adds steel products from ‘‘not domestically manufactured’’ forms submitted and approved by DGS during the previous calendar year. If you believe that an item should be added to the exempt list, you should inform DGS by submitting the necessary forms. Otherwise, DGS will have no way of knowing that it should add the item to the exempt list for 2023.
The DGS Steel Products Procurement Act page can be found here.
If you need assistance on an issue arising under the PA Steel Products Procurement Act, please call or email me. I’ll be happy to assist in anyway possible.
Christopher I. McCabe, Esq.
