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LCD-77-115 1 (1977-06-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaavtn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ftESTRICTED - Not to be relahi~a 0,1s5de *ap O'rova Accountong Uffice except On the basis of pcifc approvaI by tOfltc of Congressional RelatiOns- °TATES RELEASED 5-14o864 JUN 20 177 The Honorable Jack Brooks, Chairman IIIIIIIII//Il~l/II~//~~~l -C(5rft t-e - --orGover-nment Operations L.. LM102434 House of epresentatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This report is in response to an infcrmal request from your office for our assistance in resolving a dispute among the Department of Agriculture, the General Services Admini- stration (GSA) and the ITEL Data Products Corporation. The disoute concerned an allegation by the Department that disk drives (Model 7330) acquired from ITEL through a GSA manda- tory requirements contract were causing deqradation of sec- vice at the Department's Washington Computer Center. We had previously reviewed the Department's proposal to lease 44 double density disk drives to replace 80 IBM 3ingle density disk drives that had been leased on a sole- source basis for the Cente. On April 16, 1976, we reported (LCD-76-120) that the Department had not justified the need for double density disk drives and that single density disk drives available from a GSA mandatc~y requirements contract would meet the Center's storage needs and save about $339,000 annually. We proposed, and the Department agreed, thar the IBM disk drives be replaced by those availaole from ITEL under the mandatory requirements contract. We have reviewed the allegation, with tecnnical assis- tance from the Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and Simulation Center (FEDSIM), and discussed our ccnclusions witn your staff, GSA, and Agriculture officials. As a result, the Devartment has agreed to complete its contract with ITEL. A summary of our work follows. Tne GSA contract involved is GS-OOC-50022. It was compe- titively awarded to ITEL on February 5, 1974, and is renewable annually through fiscal year 1979. The tontract is for ITEL Model 7330 disk drives that are replacements for IBM Model 3330 disk drives. Government agencies who have requirements for the LCD-77-115 7 ZRELcED

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