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B-151204 1 (1972-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkjq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~COIN4 XI kkLb WASHINGTON. D.C. RELEASED B-151204 / Dear Senator Proxmire: In response to your request, received on June 9, 1971, we have inquired into (1) a decision by the Department of the Air Force that certain automatic data processing equipment located at its Environment-al'Tec-hnical-Applications Center, Washington, D.C., would not be purchased and (2) Air Force policy concerning purchase of such equipment. The equipment in question consisted of eight Interna- tional Business Machines Corporation (IBM) tape drives (Model 729) which were located at the Environmental Technical Appli- cations Center. Five of the tape drives were leased initially in 1964 and three in 1966. We did not examine into the rea- sons they were not purchased initially because the decision questioned was a later one, made in 1970. At Headquarters, U.S. Air Force, we were informed that the Air Force considered purchasing that equipment in 1970 but had not done so primarily because (1) it did not have sufficient procurement funds and (2) it planned to replace those units with Government-owned units by September 1972. As an interim measure the Air Force subsequently replaced the IBM tape drives with comparable units leased from the Ampex Corporation at lower rentals. We found that the Air Force decision might result in ad- ditional cost to the Government of about $28,000 through September 1972, unless the Ampex units are replaced by Government-owned units at an earlier date. Because of this additional cost, the decision was not the most economical with respect to this particular equipment. The broader as- pect of the problem involves, however, the selection of pri- orities for the best uses of limited Air Force funds, as discussed on page 5. The acquisition of the tape units and the Air Force decision not to purchase them are discussed in more detail below.

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