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EMD-81-20 1 (1980-11-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbhi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - Not to be --- Accounting Office except on the baSIs of speCkcc approvaa i , 1 7 by the office of copgrO.ioI .Clatlo.... .RCLEASED COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STAlES a' ...j ... / . .WASHINGION DC 20548 November 7, 1980 B-201063 The Honorable Jack Brooks, Chairman Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives 113929 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: 1peview of the Tennessee Valley Authority's Procurements of Automatic Data Processing Equipmejj (EMD-81-20) In your letter of March 25, 1980 (see enc. I) you expressed concern that theTennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is not properly managing its current automatic data proc- essing (ADP) resources. You specificall requested that we review TVA's proposed non-competitive purchase of ADP equipment and the progress the agency is making toward a fully cor etitive replacement of its large-scale ADP re- sources. Be ause of the immediacy of your Committee's need for information about these issues, you asked us to complete our review and orally report our findings to the Committee by June 30, 1980. We provided the briefing you requested on June 25, 1980. At that time, your office requested a written report on the details of our review findings. This report responds to that request and provides pertinent in- formation on procurement actions through September 1980. In conducting our review, we reviewed'Office of Manage-. ment and Budget circulars; General Services Administration (GSA) regulations and procedures; TVA policies, procedures, and records, and other documentation relating to ADP procure- ments. We also discussed the procurements with representa- tives of the Office of Management and Budget, GSA, TVA, and the computer industry. Because of the limited time available to conduct our review and because of TVA's lack of documentation supporting its computing requirements, we could not determine whether the requirements were accurately stated. Therefore, in reviewing TVA's proposed non-competitive purchase of ADP equipment, we determined how efficiently TVA was using its (004300)

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