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04931 - [ B0265131] .
Keed for Improvements-in the Federal Supply Service's Pri-'rity
Requisitioning Systes.'-P5AD-78-47; B-114307. January 25, 1978.
20 pp. 3 appendices 7'-).
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Federal procurement of Goods and Services (1900);
Federal Procurementof Goods and Services: Definition of
Performance Req~tirents in Relation to Need of the
Procuring Agency1 .1902);Facilities and Material Management
(700).
Contact: Procurement and Systems Acquisition Div.
Budget Function: Ge - Government: Other General Government
(806).
Organization Concerne eGeneral Services Administration.
T!,e ?ederai Supply Service (FSS) ie responsible for the
procurement and : .. goods and services to Federal
agencies. It m-aintains a priority requisitioning system in which
customers ussi-n a p,., 'ity designator to each regqisitioi
indicating th, enciS4,p their reed, and requests are handled
according to, ,rti ties. findings/Ccnclusions:-There was
extensive misu '41 priority codes. In a sample of civil
and military re% in three FSS regions, 79% of high
priority requisit. ;led had been assigned invalid
desiqnators. In Mar , FSS started using a new computer
system, the Centro ition Router, to Jetermine the most
economical depoot e customer requests. During fiscal year
1977, the system Le. id 95% of high priority requisitions,
which could not be filied by primary depots, to secondary depots
at an increase in transportation costs of about $1.06 million.
High costs are also incurred by emergency purchases of
relatively small quantities of items needed to fill priority
requisitions. Delays in processing routine requisitions are
caused by the large v lume of high priority requisitions bein,
handled. FSS believes that the responsibility for Correcting the
misuse of high priorlites belongs with the requisitioning
activities. While GAOacknowledged that the agencies are
responsible for assigpiug priorities, FSS should do what it can
to see that agencies comply with the intent of the priority
&]stem. Recommendati,ns: The CoaEissioncr of FSS should be
required to: establish control procedures for acnitoring the use
of priority codes by c Vtomsrs; initiate programs to assist
Federal aqencieE in Neveioping management programs and
procedures to promote QIe proper use of the priority code
system; reevaluate tfe controls in the Centrrl Requisition
Router decision proceg8pes; and stay the feasitility of
implementing a proqrjm in which a premium wculd be paid by
customers for priority treatment of orders. (HIW)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaawpm0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)