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B-163074 1 (1971-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~~7OS~)-nu~m~cT~ Met to be released eutsf VA ee auntlng ofi r3 xcept on tie basis of p - , c by the Office of Congressional ReatiA 2 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF TH ---D TATS REL EASE WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 ell) B-163074 IiiiiiI111111 El I1111i Dear Senator Cook: L 2LM09052 This is in response to your request that we examine into Mr. Robert S. Triplett's statements about wasteful practices at the National Civil Defense Computer Facility, Olney, Maryland. Mr. Triplett stated in his letter to you and in discussions with us that little or no use was being made of comPuter system soft- ware costing about $600o,000, disk files installed about 3 years 6 costing about $550,000, a high-speed printer costing about $100,000, and an extensive data communication system costing about $500,000. He also said that the Olney facility had not claimed about $4,000 due under the computer maintenance contract. We found that some of Mr. Triplett's charges had considerable merit in that extensive disk capability had been acquired substan- tially in advance of Olney's ability to use it, about $500.000 had been invested in computer system software which had not yet been put into use, and a high-speed printer costing about $100,000 had had very little use. CONTRACT WITH INFORMATICS, INC. In March 1967 a contract was awarded to Informatics, Inc., for design and specificatohff of a new disk-resident programming support system designated DH-36.' This system was intended to provide greater utilization of computers than was possible with the existing SCOPE system furnished by the equipment manufacturer. Olney offi- cials explained that the original SCOPE system, which utilizes tape, provided no disk-processing capability. The essential requirements of the contract were analysis, design, detailed specifications of the system, and coding of a new compiler and certain other programs in the system. Plans called for coding the programs in-house on the basis of the contract specifications. The officials informed us that they took this approach because funds for all the work were not avail- able at the time. Final contract costs were $491,41o. The initial target date for contract completion was June 1968. When additional tasks were added in May 1968, the target date was extended to January 1969. By subsequent no-cost modifications, the target date was extended to March 4 and then to June 3, 1969. Shortly after the award of the contract, Olney learned that 10 authorized employee spaces could not be filled. At about the same kv~lA / S

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