TABLE F-7. ESTIMATED COSTS EXPENDED TO PROVIDE $100 WORTH OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLE EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR PARTS TO THE USER MECHANIC

*These activities utilize Contractor Operated Parts Stores (COPARS).

Source: Estimated by Study Group 13A based on data collected in field visits to obtain using activities' cost of support.

TABLE F-8. ESTIMATED COSTS EXPENDED TO PROVIDE $100 WORTH OF COMMERCIAL FACILITY MAINTENANCE REPAIR AND SUPPLY ITEMS TO THE USER REPAIRMAN

Product volume used (Thousands of dollars)

Average costs per $100 used borne directly by the user organization's functional units

Supply unit

$28

Maintenance unit

Procurement unit

Total

$23

$51

23

5

8

36

6

$6

TABLE F-9. ESTIMATED COST OF USING ACTIVITY SUPPORT TO COMMISSARY OPERATIONS

Warehouse employees

71,120

6,330

61,953

27,992

35,100

16,128

329,242

10,000

11,448

Warehouse occupancy

25,160

2,160

7,216

10,000

5,440

Equipment

1,242

Food inspection

Total

$193,031

$12,199

$454,266

$80,286

$62,078

$28,046

$152,454

$143,794

Source: Estimated by Study Group 13A based on data collected in field visits to obtain using activities' cost of support.

APPENDIX G

List of Recommendations

1. Improve the system for collection and dissemination of statistics on procurement by commodity and agency to meet congressional, executive branch, and industry needs.

2. Provide a positive means for users to communicate satisfaction with their support system as a method of evaluating its effectiveness and ensuring user confidence.

3. Require that development of new Federal specifications for commercial-type products be limited to those that can be specifically justified, including the use of total cost-benefit criteria. All commercial producttype specifications should be reevaluated every five years. Purchase descriptions should be used when Federal specifications are not available.

4. Assign responsibility for policy regarding the development and coordination of Federal specifications to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.

5. Encourage agencies to use headquarters procurement staff personnel in the conduct of on-the-job training of field procurement personnel to (a) implement techniques adapted to specific field activity needs and (b) identify possibilities for procurement innovation and transfusion.

6. Provide statutory authority and assign to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy responsibility for policies to achieve greater economy in the procurement, storage, 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 Procure

ment 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. However, decentralization of items for local purchase should not be permitted to affect adversely centralized procurement and distribution management required for purposes such as mobilization planning, military readiness, and product quality assur

ance.

(b) Develop and implement on an orderly basis industrial funding of activities engaged in interagency supply support of commercial products and services, to the fullest practical extent, so that (1) determination and recoupment of the true costs for providing such products and services will be facilitated, and (2) efficiency in the use of resources will be fostered.

(c) Evaluate continuously the efficiency, economy, and appropriateness of the procurement and distribution systems on a total economic cost basis at all levels, without prejudice to mobilization reserve and other national requirements.

7. Require that consideration be given to the direct procurement of products made in the United States from sources avaliable to overseas activities when such sources are cost-effective.

8. Authorize primary grantees use of Federal sources of supply and services when:

(a) The purpose is to support a specific grant program for which Federal financing exceeds 60 percent,