Modifications SUBPART 101-43. 49 ILLUSTRATIONS 101-43, 4909 § 101-43.4909 Specimen description of reported excess EDP equipment. (a) Page 1 of the Specimen Description of Reported Excess EDP Equipment *Total Acquisition Cost (capital costs excluding site preparation and installation costs), whether purchased or leased. **Planned date of release of equipment. *** Indicate L(Leased), P(Purchased), or PO(Lease with purchase option). If purchase option is still effective, indicate month and year of expiration. #For leased equipment, obtain from manufacturer price Government would have to pay at release date. If leased with purchase option, also indicate in parenthesis manufacturers advertised purchase price for identical equipment in used condition without option. STANDARD FORM 120 BEV. APRIL 1957 EDITION (Use Standard Form 120A for Continuation Sheets) ☆ U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1957-433909 PART 101-43 UTILIZATION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY 101-43, 4909 (b) Page 2 of the Specimen Description of Reported Excess EDP Equipment EQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION All equipment installed and use begun in October 1962. Codes 001, 103, and 204 of Attachment A to BOB Circular A-55, Revised, are applicable. Designed for operation on 230 volts, 3-phase, 60 cycles alternating current. Requires approximately 60,000 b.t.u. of air-conditioning for temperature and humidity control. Requires approximately 800 square feet of floor space. Average monthly down time during past 12 months--8 hours. SOFTWARE Programming Systems and Compilers: Symbolic Programming System, Basic Engineering drawings and maintenance manuals available for all items. Maintenance contract, supplies and spare parts available from manufacturer. (END OF PART) ECONOMIC IMPACT OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 1965 CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND REGULATION OF THE JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITTEE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10:10 a.m., pursuant to recess, in room 318, Old Senate Office Building, Representative Thomas B. Curtis presiding. Present: Senator Jordan, and Representatives Curtis and Widnall. Also present: Ray Ward, economic consultant, James W. Knowles, executive director, and Hamilton D. Gewehr, administrative clerk. Representative CURTIS. The committee will come to order. We are very pleased this morning to have Mr. Elmer Staats, Deputy Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Mr. Staats, of course, is no stranger to this subcommittee, and to the deep interests that we have been pursuing. So, without further ado, Mr. Staats, will you please introduce your associates, and then proceed with your statement? STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU OF THE BUDGET; ACCOMPANIED BY ROGER JONES, SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR; GEORGE G. MULLINS, CHIEF, PROPERTY AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT BRANCH, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION; HAROLD SEIDMAN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION; WILLIAM GILL, AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING PROGRAM; AND CLIFF MILLER, MILITARY DIVISION, BUREAU OF THE BUDGET Mr. STAATS. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am very pleased to be here. At my immediate right is Mr. Roger Jones, special assistant to the Director; and to my immediate left is Mr. George Mullins, who is head of our Property and Supply Management Branch in our Office of Management and Organization. We have some others here that I will introduce as we go along, if we need to call on them. Representative CURTIS. I wonder if you might, just for the record, introduce them with their titles, and then, if you will, refer to them. Mr. STAATS. All right. At my back here is Mr. Harold Seidman, who is Assistant Director of the Bureau in charge of Management and Organization. To his left, Mr. William Gill, who has been concerned with our automatic data processing program, and is in charge of that, and Mr. Cliff Miller, to my back here, is in our Military Division, concerned with military supply management. 275 Mr. Chairman, I would like to say at the outset that this has been an annual occurrence for us, and for the committee, and I would like to go out of my way to compliment the committee for what it has done in this field. It is only by a sustained effort that sometimes we are . able to get some of these things accomplished that both you and we are interested in bringing about. I have had an opportunity to read the statements of the Defense Department, and the General Services Administration, and the Comptroller General, and I think that all these together with the committee's questioning, adds up to a very fine way of assuring all of us that we are on top of the problems in this area. I just wanted to say that as a personal note of appreciation. Mr. STAATS. I appreciate the opportunity to appear again before your subcommittee and review, from the standpoint of the Bureau of the Budget, developments in the continuing efforts to improve procurement and supply management and related activities in the executive branch. I plan to cover briefly subjects to which you referred in your letter of April 7. I would be pleased to discuss more fully any on which you have particular questions. (The April 7 letter referred to, from Chairman Douglas to the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, appears below :) Hon. KERMIT GORDON, Director, Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D.C. APRIL 7, 1965. Dear Mr. GorDON: The Subcommittee on Federal Procurement and Regulation will hold hearings on April 27, 28, and 29, 1965, as a continuation of the program of the former Subcommittee on Defense Procurement. You are scheduled to testify, accompanied by such staff as you desire, on April 29, 1965, at 10 a.m., room 318, Senate Office Building. In addition to a followup on previous recommendations, the subcommittee will be interested in learning of the progress that has been achieved in the Government-wide cost reduction program including the development of an efficient Federal supply system. This includes not only DOD-GSA relationships, but also relationships between GSA and other civilian agencies such as the Post Office, Veterans' Administration, etc. We will appreciate progress reports on the automatic data-processing (ADP) program; the improved management of weather research and hospitals; and the impact of Buy American policy on costs and balance of payments. Of growing importance also is the subject of the economic impact of commercial-industrial activities of the Government (see subcommittee reports of July 1963 and September 1964). A discussion as to basic policy on initiation and continuation of such activities will be of value to the subcommittee. Faithfully yours, PAUL H. DOUGLAS. Mr. STAATS. As you know, the Bureau of the Budget is not directly involved in procurement and other administrative operations. Our primary interest is from the point of view of the President's budget and the efficient and economical management of Government programs. A sustained drive for economy in all Government operations is necessary if we are to adequately support our stepped up efforts in such fields as education, the war on poverty, health, manpower training, and housing and urban development. Between 1964 and 1966 the President's budget outlays for national defense and space, together, will decline by $1.7 billion, and all other administrative budget ex penditures are estimated to decrease by $1.4 billion. Procurement, supply management and the other matters which are the concern of your subcommittee are especially important in this effort. COST REDUCTION PROGRAM The President has directed each agency head to assume personal responsibility for cost reduction and make quarterly reports on accomplishments. Last year agencies reported actions taken that have or will produce savings in excess of $312 billion; $2.8 billion was reported by Secretary McNamara. While the President was encouraged by this response, he believes that there are certain aspects of the Defense Department program that could be emulated profitably by all agencies. Accordingly, we have issued recently a circular (A-44) requiring each agency head to establish a formal cost-reduction program. I am attaching a copy of this circular as part of my statement. (The material referred to follows:) |