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B-177623 1 (1973-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablah0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PY 1no O ffic of t hh - - ee ch r n/p,.b Crcord Of Which 0518: Sranc,, OAS RELEASED B-177623 APR 18 1973 The Honorable Melvin Price ' House of Representatives Dear Mr.' Price: This is in response to your inquiry of December 5, 1972, about the, n-a lSter i. m t r a t i9os tion of ? the Telpak fuctp, T _,_.cr~ Q icu Io~ns ( 2 o~~j cco). GSA initially took over the Telpak functions on October 18, 1972, to test the Automated Telpak Management System (ATMS) it had developed. The s stem was . iA9P,,,5inificant savings _ingl Ihe~ Goenet Previously both DECCO and GSA had independently managed the functions for their own allocated portions of the Telpak circuits, DECCO on a semiautomated basis and GSA on a manual basis. Telpak is a grouping of leaep.. unicati circuits between two points procured under a pricing arrangemenit .,(tariff) that effects substantial savings over procuring circuits on an individual basis. Currently, the interstate tariff offers two types of Telpak services--type C with a 60-voice circuit ca- pacity and type D with a 240-voice circuit capacity. The cus- tomer has the management prerogative for grouping and routing its communications circuits through Telpak in a manner which will maximize circuit use and minimize the cost. Several problems in the circuit routings under the auto- mated system indicated that the Government would probably in- cur additional costs rather than gain the savings projected through automation. Consequently, the test was stopped on January 15, 1973, and the functions were turned over to a joint DECCO/GSA group, which uses the DECCO's semiautomated system. GSA has not determined what their future plans will be for the ATMS program. We found that neither DECCO nof GSA had made any changes to their staffing authorizations because of the transfer of functions, although some reductions had been envisioned if the ATMS test had been proved successful. Neither agency has' 9&~~- 9079

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