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B-168240 1 (1972-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaeia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: not tot,, yr et o A ri I which y 1ou efrre Ofc statitics, fotht e Sv. oroatota by the oftke of tCongre cran cs kePt by the Do tonal iaata teo COMPTIROLt &OIff.~,111Rf~ hic WASHINGTON, D.C. 2048cMfl t-1824 RELASE OCT 4 1972 Dear Mr. Gaydos: This is in response to your letter of April 19, 1972, in which you referred to statistics from the SCM Corporation that indicated the takeover of the American calculator and type- writer industries by foreign competitors. Because of your concern over the Nation's trade imbalance and the loss of do- mestic industry, you requested that we fully investigate the Federal Government's purchasing policies. Specifically, you wanted to know: --What type of office equipment is purchased abroad, the quantity and cost of these purchases, where the equip- ment is purchased and how it compares with equipment bought from domestic sources. --Our opinion as to whether the purchases of foreign-made equipment violated Executive Order No. 10582, which implements the Buy-AmericanAct. Because your letter specifically mentions certain office machines, we reviewed only office machines, Federal Supply Class 74, which covers accounting, adding and subtracting machines, calculators, typewriters, composers, sound recorders, and reproducers. Generally, Government and non-Government agencies pur- chased office machines directly from companies that have indefinite-quantity contracts with the General Services Ad- 2-ministration (GSA). The items available under these con- /tracts are listed in the Federal Supply Schedule, which is furnished to the various Government agencies and other author- ized users. The Federal Supply Schedule identifies foreign- produced items as those items for which the cost of foreign components is 50 percent or more of the cost of all components in the product. A brief discussion of Federal Supply Schedule contract- ing and the Buy-American Act requirement, considered pertinent to your inquiry, follows. /9

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