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B-169116 1 (1970-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabktd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRICTED - Not to be released outside the General Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Legislative Liaison, a record of which is kept by the Di tr bution Section, Publications Branch, OAS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES B-169166 RELEASED MAY I 1970 Dear Senator Moss: Your letter of February 16, 1970, referred to us a complaint from Mr. Dick Burke of Advance Business Equipment, Salt Lake City, Utah, con- cerning the procurement of certain copy paper by the Interagency Board of United States Civil Service Examiners (Board) at Salt Lake City. Mr. Burke stated that the Executive Officer of the Board had refused to buy copy paper from him even though (1) his Nashua copy pape had been available under Federal Supply Schedule contracts at a price lower than that paid by the Board and (2) his paper had been thoroughly tested, with very satisfactory results, on the Board's copier manufactured by the SCM Corporation. We reviewed (1) the Federal regulations governing the purchase of items under Federal Supply Schedule contracts and (2) pertinent records and documents at both the Board's office in Salt Lake City and the Civil Service Commission's regional office in Denver, Colorado, which has administrative responsibility over the operations of the Salt Lake City Board and awards purchase orders for the acquisition of the Board's copy paper We also interviewed Mr Burke and ascertained from Commission officials at both the Salt Lake City and Denver offices the procedures followed in the procurement of copy paper. COPY PAPER PROCURED AT A PRICE GREATER THAN THE LOWEST PRICE AVAILABLE In December 1969 the Commission's Denver Regional Office issued a blanket purchase order for 25,000 sheets of copy paper from the SCM Corporation covering the estimated requirements of the Salt Lake City Board through June 30, 1970 The Federal Supply Schedule price lists showed that the appropriate type of Nashua copy paper was available at a net price, after cash discounts, that was slightly lower than the listed net price for the SCM copy paper ordered for use by the Salt Lake City Board K9:l-E / 4

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