US AbilityOne Commission
The US AbilityOne Commission is an independent federal agency that administers the AbilityOne Program, which creates employment opportunities for individuals who are blind or have significant disabilities. Operating under the Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act, the Commission maintains the AbilityOne Procurement List — a catalog of products and services that federal agencies are required to purchase from qualified nonprofit agencies employing people who are blind or have significant disabilities. The PLIMS (Procurement List Information Management System) provides web-based search access to the products and services list. Two central nonprofit agencies, NIB (National Industries for the Blind) and SourceAmerica, manage the affiliated nonprofit network.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles US AbilityOne Commission the way a machine reads it — 48 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — US AbilityOne Commission scores 54.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile US AbilityOne Commission
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for US AbilityOne Commission. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
US AbilityOne Commission Agencies API
Nonprofit agencies participating in the AbilityOne program
US AbilityOne Commission Products API
AbilityOne Procurement List products identified by NSN
US AbilityOne Commission Reports API
Procurement list reports and data downloads
US AbilityOne Commission Services API
AbilityOne Procurement List services
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
AbilityOne Procurement List API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Us Abilityone Commission Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 5
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Procurement List Search
Web-based search of the AbilityOne Procurement List by NSN, product description, agency, and nonprofit affiliate via PLIMS.
Products List
Searchable and downloadable catalog of products on the AbilityOne Procurement List, identified by National Stock Number (NSN).
Services List
Searchable catalog of services on the AbilityOne Procurement List, organized by service category and performing nonprofit agency.
Nonprofit Agency Directory
Directory of NIB-affiliated and SourceAmerica-affiliated nonprofit agencies that employ people who are blind or have significant disabilities.
Reports and Data Downloads
Downloadable Excel reports of the Procurement List products and services, nonprofit agency rosters, and distributor lists.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
US AbilityOne Commission API Rules
SPECTRALUS AbilityOne Commission API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 7
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Agency
JSON SCHEMAAgencyListResponse
JSON SCHEMAAPIError
JSON SCHEMAProduct
JSON SCHEMAProductSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAService
JSON SCHEMAServiceSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 7 ·
JSON Structure 7
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Procurement List Api Agency Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Agencylistresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Apierror Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Product Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Productsearchresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Service Structure
JSON STRUCTUREProcurement List Api Servicesearchresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 7 ·
Examples 7
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Federal Acquisition Compliance
Federal contracting officers verifying mandatory source requirements for AbilityOne products and services before placing orders.
Procurement List Lookup
Defense and civilian agencies searching by NSN to determine if a product must be procured through the AbilityOne program.
Nonprofit Agency Discovery
Federal buyers identifying which nonprofit agency supplies a specific product or service in their geographic region.
Distributor Integration
Authorized distributors accessing the Procurement List to maintain current product catalogs and pricing.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
NIB (National Industries for the Blind)
Central nonprofit agency managing blind-employing organizations participating in the AbilityOne program.
SourceAmerica
Central nonprofit agency managing organizations employing people with significant disabilities in the AbilityOne program.
GSA Advantage
GSA procurement platform where AbilityOne products are listed and available for federal purchase.
SAM.gov
System for Award Management integration for federal contract and acquisition data linked to AbilityOne awards.
FPDS
Federal Procurement Data System tracking AbilityOne program spending and contract awards across federal agencies.
Resources
Every other property we hold for US AbilityOne Commission — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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