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AIMD-94-77R 1 (1994-02-18)

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             United States
GAO          General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548                          /5O &?K

             Accounting and Information
             Management Division


             B-256388

             February 18, 1994

             The Honorable Richard J. Durbin
             Chairman
             The Honorable Joe Skeen
             Ranking Minority Member
             Subcommittee on Agriculture,
             Rural Development, Food and Drug
             Administration, and Related Agencies
             Committee on Appropriations
             House of Representatives

             This letter responds to your request for information about
             the Department of Agriculture's National Finance Center
             (NFC). On the basis of discussions with your respective
             staffs, we identified the (1) reasons for Agriculture's
             moratorium on accepting additional agencies as customers
             for NFC and (2) savings the Departments of the Treasury
             and Justice estimate they will realize by switching to
             Agriculture's payroll/personnel system.

             To identify reasons for the moratorium, we interviewed
             Agriculture headquarters officials, current and former NFC
             managers, and Office of Management and Budget officials.
             In addition, we obtained and analyzed documents related to
             the moratorium and obtained the estimated costs and
             savings associated with the Treasury and Justice
             conversions of their payroll/personnel processing to NFC.
             We also interviewed Treasury and Justice officials to
             discuss the costs and savings associated with the
             conversions. We did not independently verify the reported
             costs and savings. We performed our work between June
             1993 and December 1993.

             BACKGROUND

             NFC was established in the early 1970s to provide
             administrative computer processing for Agriculture's
             various bureaus. In the mid-1980s, at the request of the
             Office of Management and Budget and after approval by the
             Secretary of Agriculture, NFC began establishing cross-
             servicing agreements to provide administrative computer
             processing for other federal agencies. Generally,
             agencies were accepted for cross-servicing under terms and


GAO/AIMD-94-77R, Agriculture: NFC Moratorium

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