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02623 - tA18528701
[Proposed Procurement of Equipment for the Department of
Agriculture's Kansas City Computer Center]. LCD-77-114;
B-146864. Jurae 23, 1977. 3 pp. + 2 enclosures (8 pp.).
Report to Rep. Jack Brooks, Chairman, House Committee on
Government Operations; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Automatic Data Processing: Acquiring and Using
Resources (102); Federal Procuremeiit of Gocds and Services:
Definition of Performance Requirements in Relation to Need
of the Procuring Agency (1902).
Contact: Logistics and ,ommunic.tions Div.
Budget Function: Miscellaneous: Automatic Data Processing
(1001).
Organization Concerned: Department of Agricultui:e; General
Services Administration.
Congressional Relevance: V'ouse Committee on Government
Operations; Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry.
Cooperative efforts among officials of GAO, the Farmers
Home Administration, and the Department of Agriculture's Office
of Automated Data Services to work out the details for a
feasibility study have resulted in a better understanding of the
problem and a more deliberate approach to meeting tae
information processing needs of the Farmers Home Administration.
Fin(ings/Conclusiois: The Farmers Home Administration decided to
proz-eed with its Unified Management Information system without
the on-line terminal network that would have included terminals
in every county office. The scope of the current plan for
implementing the Unified Management Information System and for
testing the concept has been narrowed from the multi-state test
originally planned and will be departmentwide, rather than
single-agency oriented. GAO supports the plan because it
contains the safeguards suggested earlier by GAO, allows
Ag-iculture to proceed with procuring equipment for its Kansas
City Computer Center, allows for development of th,, National
Operating Center concept as the basis for implementing the
Unified Management Information System, and does not require that
contract options be used for additional computer capacity until
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