Management of Federal Supply Service Procurement Programs Can be Improved, General Services Administration: Report to the Congress

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U.S. General Accounting Office, 1974 - Government purchasing - 36 pages

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Page 1 - The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, created the General Services Administration...
Page 1 - GSA to provide the Government with an efficient and economical system for procuring and supplying personal property and nonpersonal services. Although the act provides GSA with responsibility for supplying many classes of items, the act allows the Secretary, Department of Defense (DOD). unless the President shall otherwise direct, to exclude DOD, from time to time, from...
Page iv - ... and distribution of commercial products used by Federal agencies. Until statutory authority is provided and until such responsibility is assigned to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the following actions should be taken: (a) Establish reasonable standards to permit local using installations to buy directly from commercial sources if lower total economic costs to the Government can be achieved.
Page 1 - The regulations also authorize agencies to purchase direct frvru commercial sources (1) in emergency situations, (2) when the item is perishable in nature, or (3) when GSA determines that such procurement will produce the greatest economy to Government. Question 2. At present, are there any regulations that require that the procuring agency purchase recycled goods if available, and within the price range of the goods made from virgin materials? Answer. To our knowledge there are no regulations that...
Page 15 - Although price savings accrue from large volume purchases, this should not be the sole consideration for , using interagency support systems.
Page 18 - Government . -Develop cost data or pricing systems that will permit evaluation of total economic costs to the Government of supplying items through GSA channels for comparison with direct commercial procurement by agencies.
Page iv - GSA with the incentive to retain centralized procurement of items that will result in savings to the Government and eliminate centralized procurement, of items which agencies can procure more economically from commercial distribution systems.

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