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AIMD-94-178R 1 (1994-08-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackqe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IS23901 United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division B-258182 August 19, 1994 Dr. Steven Kelman Administrator Office of Federal Procurement Policy Office of Management and Budget Mr. Thurman M. Davis Regional Administrator National Capital Region General Services Administration Mr. Joe Thompson Commissioner Information Resources Management Service General Services Administration We appreciate your cooperation and receptiveness during our recent meeting discussing the Federal Procurement Data Center's operation of the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS). We reviewed FPDS to determine whether users are satisfied with the system and if it is efficiently and effectively managed. Your commitment to improving this system is critical to FPDS providing timely, accurate, and complete governmentwide procurement data. To ensure that all parties share an understanding of the discussion from our August 4, 1994, meeting, this letter summarizes our briefing and your comments. During the meeting, we discussed the following four issues identified during our review. -- First, it is important that the Center improve communication with its customers. We found that FPDS has not kept pace with evolving user needs because OMB and GSA have not provided a vehicle to hear and address users' concerns. Creation of an FPDS user committee would provide a valuable forum for identifying and addressing data needs. You agreed with this finding and stated that GSA and OMB will begin hosting semiannual meetings of a newly established FPDS customer forum that will identify and address users' needs. In addition, we stated that several FPDS users indicated they would benefit from more timely data. To address this user GAO/AIMD-94-178R, OMB and GSA: FPDS Improvements

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