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AFMD-81-74 1 (1981-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UN ITED STATES [. WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 RELEASED B-200948 JUL 2 8 19' The Honorable Jack Brooks Chairman, Committee on GovernrtESE .Operations 11111 House of Representatives 116860 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Jragmented Management Hinders GSAkt'Ability to Acquire Internal ADP Resources (AFMD-81-74) Your July 141 1980, letter (encl. I) requested that we re- view the General Services Administration's (GSA's) plans to (1) acquire automatic data processing (ADP) resources to support internal data processing requirements, and (2) rely on sole- source, noncompetitive extensions of the Computer Sciences Cor- poration (CSC) INFONET contracts for teleprocessing services. Our review resulted in two reports on the issues raised in that letter. Our first report (AFMD-81-15, Oct. 24, 1980) ad- dressed the sole-source extensions of the CSC INFONET contracts. The second report (AFMD-81-21, Dec. 17, 1980) addressed GSA's attempt to acquire ADP resources in accordance with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular A-109. In your November 14, 1980, letter (encl. II) you requested that we undertake a broad management and technical review of GSA's ability to acquire and use internal ADP resources. Since 1977, Administrators of General Services have stated that GSA's existing internal ADP equipment is unreliable due to age, lack of spare parts, and maintenance, and that plans are underway to competitively replace it. The Administrators also indicated that, once the acquisition of the needed ADP equipment was complete, GSA would no longer rely on extending its sole- source contracts for teleprocessing services with CSC INFONET to support internal systems. We found that GSA's internal ADP management has been unable to (1) acquire the ADP resources to replace its old and unrelia- ble ADP equipment and (2) terminate the sole-source contracts with CSC. We believe this is because GSA lacks necessary ADP management expertise. For example, internal ADP management could develop neither a successful long-range ADP plan nor an effective request for proposal to acquire the needed ADP resources. In addition, internal ADP management did not follow Federal policy and regulations in its attempt to acquire these ADP resources. (913666)

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