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089126 1 (1975-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvdt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UUO/ UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REGIONAL OFFICE or 92Z FEDERAL. tUILDING, SIXTH AND ARCH STREETS PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19106 August 7, 1975 Captain George G. Ryon, Comiander Defense Industrial Supply Center pe 700 Robbins Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111 Dear Captain Ryon: We recently conpleted an examination of the purchasing policies and practices followed by the Defense Industrial Supply Center, Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania, for awarding contracts for industrial items used by the military services. The purpose of this letter is to advise you of certain unusual bidding patterns that we noted during our examina- tion of small purchases awarded under limited conpetitive small pur- chase procedures. The purchases were for rivets and screws associated with Federal Stock Classes 5320 and 5305, respectively. In reviewing the system for purchases between $250 and $2, 500, which requires solicitations from up to seven vendors, we noted many purchase requests where identical bids were submitted by vendors who were requested to submit bids. In particular, one vendor -- Voi Shan & Manufacturing Co., Inc., - was involved in at least 18 instances where identical bids were noted. The following table sets forth vendors submitting bids identical to Voi Shan for the 18 transactions discussed in this letter. Number Voi Shan and Hi-Shear Corp. 11 Standard Pressed Steel Co. 6 I Olympic Fastening Systems, Inc. 1 Total 18 Of the 18 instances involving identical bids, 8 were low bids and the ties were broken by the delivery schedules. Voi Shan was only successful in I out of 8 instances where its identical bids were also low bids. Lcilg

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