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![handle is hein.gao/gaobabdqw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AESTRI4TDE- Not to be released outside the General
Accounting Office except on tho basis of specil. approval RELEASED
Piy the Office of Congressional Relations.
BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
Report To The Chairman,
Committee On Energy And Commerce
House Of Representatives
0OF THE UNITED STATES
The Department Of Energy's
Procurement Information System:
Expectations Have Not Been Realized
T ae Department of Energy's procurement infor-
Iation system (IPMIS), designed to track pro-
c rement actions through all contract phases,
-I-will cost at least 3-1/2 times the original
estimates without fully realizing the expected
benefits;
--has not been, and may never be, effective;
and
-has been modified to eliminate the system's
1 ability to track proourement planning data.
The problems DOE encountered with IPMIS can
bi traced to the fact that DOE did not follow
normally accepted procedures for developing a
management information system. Rather, it often
made arbitrary decisions and rushed certain
p hases of IPMIS' development.
GAO recommends actions to help make IPMIS--
row called the Procurement and Assistance
Data System (PADS)--an effective and efficient
procurement information system. The Depart-
ment of Energy should follow accepted pro-
cdures in developing any future management
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GAO/EMD-82-113
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