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rPotential Economies Involving the Advanced Record Syste.].
LCD-77-108; B-146864. August 8, 1977. 9 pp.
Report to Joel W. Siomon, Administrator, General Services
Administration; by ±red J. Snafer, Director, Loa'4-tics and
Communications Div.
Issue Area: Military Preparedness Plans: Military Communications
and Tn-lormation Processing Needs (803).
Contact: Logistics and Communications Div.
Budget Function: General Science, Space, and Technology:
relecommunications and Radio Frequency Spectrum Use (258).
The General Services Alministration (GSA) needs to
improve Its planning for management of record communications
services. Findings/Conclusions: GSA lid not thoroughly evaluate
alternatives in its planning during 1969 and 1970 for future
Advanced Record System services. Instead, GSA extended the
existing contract, which resulted in subject-ing the Government
to significantly higher potential termination charges. Centrary
to -SA's expectations of saturation, the Advanced Record System
has unused capacity resulting primarily because a large user
established its own system. Recommendations: The Administrator
of General Services should: d-termine the civil agencies' record
and data communications requirements and perform cost analyses
of various system alteriuatives before further expanding or
enhancing the Advanced Record System in a manner that would
exe nd the performance period or increase the amount of
ter ination liability for the Government; aggressively continue
GSA's efforts to increase the u3e of the Advanced Record System
under conditions where it can provide adequate service and when
the incremental costs to the Government are equal to or less
than those for an alternate system; and evaluate the economy ani
feasibility of shifting the circuit switching network to the
Pederal Telecommunications System voice network or another
competitively procured system periodically, such as when tariffs
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