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LCD-77-101 1 (1976-12-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LM100047 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STAT W SWASHING'TOw. 0-C ' r2: - B-146864 The Honorable Jack Brooks, Chairman W1 Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: in response to your January 17, 1976, request, we re- viewed the Department of Agricultu:e's plans to replace an IBM 360/65 computer system located at its New Orleans Com- puter Center. As requested, we concentrated on determining whether Agriculture could justify the replacement and whether it would have to be made on a noncompetitive basis. We found that Agriculture was tentatively planning to replace the IBM 360/65 system with an IBM 370/165 system in November 1976. The latter system would be leased from the third-party market for 36 months, costing the Government about $3.3 million. This cost is about $66,000 more a month than the cost to lease the IBM 360/65 system, or about $2.4 million more over the 36-month period. The IBM 370/165 system was to provide sufficient data processing capacity until January 1978, when Agriculture planned to have operational a new computer system which would be acquired through a competitive procurement. The IBM 370/165 system was to have been retained for 22 months beyond that date to allow Agriculture time to reprogram the computer applications for the new system. The need to upgrade the IBM 360/65 system was deter- mined through a requirements analyris based on 21 shifts a week and a capacity of 285 productive computer hours 1/ a month. The analysis dated April 9, 1976, showed that-the center's workload would exceed the productive capacity cf the IBM 360/65 system in May 1976. It indicated that the shortage would be about 9 hours in May 1976 and would incre- mentally increase to 229 hours by December 1977. 1/ Computer time available for processing user workloads after providing for system maintenance and computer operating overhead. LCD-77-10i

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