Technical Descriptions and Test Standards

Technical descriptions and test standards are developed to describe the essential physical characteristics and performance required for GSA contracts.

Commercial Item Descriptions
Doc ID Name Format Size Publish Date
A-A-3190A Desk, Return Attachment and Credenza (Office, Traditional Style) This document describes design and performance requirements for traditionally styled metal office furniture. Word 54k 9/6/2007
A-A-3188A Desks, Returns, and Credenzas (Steel, Contemporary Style) This document describes design and performance requirements for contemporary style metal office furniture. Word 56k 9/6/2007
A-A-3187A File Cabinets, Lateral and Shelf Files, Steel This Commercial Item Description describes the design and performance requirements for steel, lateral and shelf files. Word 83k 8/2/2007
A-A-3186A File Cabinets, Vertical, Steel This document describes requirements for medium and heavy duty, steel, vertical file cabinets. Word 74k 8/2/2007
A-A-3180A Chairs, Rotary And Straight (Steel, General Office) This Commercial Item Description contains the design and performance requirements for traditional style, steel office chairs. Word 115k 6/19/2007
A-A-3083 Chairs, Folding (Steel) This document describes the design and performance requirements for metal folding chairs. PDF 33k 4/26/2000
A-A-2009E Tables, Office (Contemporary Style) This document describes a contemporary style, office table. PDF 17k 3/21/2002
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FF-L-2937 Combination Lock, Mechanical This specification describes the requirements for mechanical combination locks for use on GSA Approved containers. PDF 68k 1/31/2005
  Amendment 2 Amendment to Federal Specification FF-L-2937 PDF 28k 2/1/2007
FF-L-2890A Lock Extension (Pedestrian Door, Deadbolt) This document describes requirements for combination locks used on pedestrian doors. Word 108k 8/1/2004
FF-L-2740A Lock, Combination This document describes requirements for combination locks intended for the protection of national security information. PDF 155k 1/12/1997
  Amendment-1 Amendment to combination lock requirements PDF 4k 5/25/2001
  QPL-FF-L-2740-8 This document is a list of products qualified under FF-L-2740A. PDF 8k 7/10/2002
AA-V-2737 Modular Vault Systems This document describes requirements for modular vault systems intended for the protection of national security information. PDF 944k 4/25/1990
  Amendment-2 Amendment to modular vault system requirements. Word 33k 10/30/2006
  QPL- Version 5 This is a list of products qualified under the specification. Word 44k 10/17/2007
AA-F-363D Filing Cabinet Security, Maps and Plans, General Filing and Storage The federal specification and qualified products list cover map and plan filing cabinets intended for protection of classified information. PDF 39k 6/1/2001
  Qualified Products List QPL-AA-F-363-17 - Qualified Products List PDF 13k 12/20/2002
  Amendment-3 Amendment to map and plan filing cabinet requirements. PDF 77k 4/20/2007
AA-F-358H Filing Cabinet, Legal and Letter Size, Uninsulated, Security The federal specification and qualified products list are for uninsulated, filing cabinets intended for protection of classified information. PDF 174k 5/18/2000
  Qualified Products List QPL-AA-F-358-11 - Qualified Products List Word 54k 7/25/2006
  Amendment 3 Amendment to Federal Specification AA-F-358H Word 36k 4/20/2007
AA-D-600D Door, Vault, Security The federal specifications and qualified products list are for GSA approved vault doors intended for the protection of classified information. PDF 121k 5/15/2000
  QPL-AA-D-600-7 This is a list of products qualified under AA-D-600. Word 52k 5/20/2008
  Amendment 2 Amendment to Federal Specification AA-D-600D Word 35k 4/20/2007
AA-C-2859A Cabinet, Security, Weapons Storage This federal specification describes the requirements for weapons storage cabinets. Word 130k 4/20/2007
  Amendment-1 This document contains amendments to the requirements of AA-C-2859A. Word 27k 5/24/2006
  Qualified Products List QPL-AA-C-2859-3 Qualified Products List for weapons storage cabinets Word 35k 4/2/2007
  Cabinet, Security, Information Processing System Storage The specification describes the requirements for security containers used for storing operating information processing systems. PDF 754k 9/7/2004
  QPL-AA-C-2786-1 This document is a list of products qualified under AA-C-2786. PDF 59k 10/1/2005
  Amendment-2 This amendment revises portions for AA-C-2786. PDF 22k 4/20/2007
Back to top Federal Standards
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Fed. Std. 809A Federal Standard 809A Federal Standard 809 describes procedures for opening and repair of GSA Approved security containers. PDF 173k 5/10/2005
Fed. Std. 800 Terms, Definitions and Symbols For Security Equipment and Practices This document is a glossary of terms, definitions and symbols related to security equipment. Word 1146k 1/5/1989
Back to top IWAC Purchase Descriptions
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FNAE 80-214A Upholstered Furniture Test Method This document contains performance requirements for rating upholstered furniture into light, medium, and heavy service levels. PDF 1455k 9/1/1998
FCNE 90-512B Marker Boards This purchase description (PD) covers porcelain enameled steel, wall mounted, marker boards. PDF 17k 3/16/2007
FCNE 87-445E Demountable Wall Systems This document describes performance and testing requirements for demountable wall systems. Word 37k 12/11/2008
FCNE 87-442DE Workstation Clusters This document describes the performance and testing requirements for workstation clusters. Word 42k 12/11/2008
3QSAB-08-606 Safety Performance and Flammability Requirements This document describes the safety, performance and flammability requirements for daycare, classroom, and auditorium furniture. Word 37k 7/10/2009
3QSAB 09-609 Performance Test Requirements for Upholstered Seating This purchase description defines the performance and testing requirements for upholstered seating. PDF 32k 8/25/2009
3QSAB 09-608 Technical Requirements for Wood Executive Office and Conference Room Furniture This document describes performance, construction, and grading standards for wood, executive office furniture. PDF 125k 8/25/2009
3FNE-CO 96-573B Occasional Tables, Wood Office, Classic Traditional Style The document describes design and performance requirements for traditional style, wood, occasional tables for executive offices. Word 191k 4/21/2008
3FNE-CO 96-572B Lounge Seating, Wood Office, Classic Traditional Style This document describes design and performance requirements for traditional style, executive office and wood lounge seating. Word 517k 4/21/2008
3FNE-CO 96-571B Chairs, Rotary and Straight, Wood Office, Classic Traditional Style This document describes design, performance and testing requirements for traditional style, executive office wood seating. Word 483k 4/21/2008
3FNE-CO 01-597A Occasional Tables, Wood Office, Transitional Style This document describes design and performance requirements for wood, occassional tables intended for executive office use. PDF 49k 7/25/2006
3FNE-CO 01-596A Lounge Seating, Wood Office, Transitional Style This document describes the essential construction, material, and design requirements for transitional style, executive office lounge seating. PDF 87k 7/25/2006
3FNE-CO 01-595A Chairs, Rotary and Straight, Wood Office, Transitional Style This document describes the essential construction, material and design requirements for transitional style, wood executive office chairs. PDF 427k 7/25/2006
3FNE-CO 00-594A Office Furniture: Sofa; Chair, Easy, Executive, Traditional The purchase description contains requirements for traditional style, upholstered, executive office seating. PDF 475k 12/22/2005
3FNE-CO 00-593A Chairs, Wood, Executive Office, Traditional This purchase description includes requirements for wood, traditional style, executive office chairs. PDF 870k 12/22/2005
3FNE 99-582C Test Requirements for Bunk and Loft Beds This document provides test methods to test bunk and loft beds for safety. PDF 77k 8/27/2009
3FNE 98-578B Freestanding Partitions, Movaeable Partitions and Demountable Walls This document provides feature and performance test requirements for office partitions and demountable walls. PDF 83k 7/10/2009
3FNE 98-576A Certification Requirements for Freestanding Acoustical and Speech Privacy Partitions This document contains requirements for a third party certification program for office partitions. PDF 16k 5/23/2000
3FNE 90-504C High Density Movable Filing Systems This document describes minimum requirements for high density filing systems offered for inclusion on Schedule 71 I. PDF 18k 10/7/1998
3FNE 87-441E Furniture Systems This document describes performance and testing requirements for systems furniture Word 44k 12/11/2008
3FNE 00-591A Technical Requirements Booklet for Carpet, Carpet Tiles and Carpet Cushion This document specifies the performance and testing requirements for flooring products. PDF 60k 4/30/2002
Back to top NFC Purchase Descriptions
Doc ID Name Format Size Publish Date
3FNE-CO 92-531E Wood, Free Standing and Modular Traditional Executive Office Furniture This document defines feature and performance requirements for traditionally styled, wood, executive office furniture. Word 1118k 6/3/2008
3FNE 99-583A Test Requirements for Wall Beds This document describes performance test requirements for wall beds. Word 36k 9/12/2008
3FNE 98-575A Standard Forms for Submitting CAL117 Test Results This document provides standardized forms used to submit test results for State of California Technical Bulletin 117 (CAL117) testing. PDF 26k 5/9/2003
3FNE 00-589 Test Requirements for Library Bookstacks This document defines performance test requirements for library bookstacks. PDF 92k 2/22/2000
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Last Reviewed 11/20/2009