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B-148581,B-189651,B-190650 1 (1980-09-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadinu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A< oiLER * o THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITEO STATES VVASHINGTON, ODC. 20548 FILE: B-148581, B-189651,DATE: September 2, 1980 B-190650 MATTER OF: Army Request for Advance Decision DIGEST: Fact that Army and Air Force Exchange Service, a nonappropriated fund instrumentality (NAFI), has regular supply channel and established transportation and warehouse system for items to be procured by Army is not itself suffi- cient to justify sole-source procurement from NAFI. This is in response to rarequest for an advance decision from the Director fo Procurement, Sacramento Army D t, as to the propriety of the proposed pur- chase by the Army of certain items from the Army and Ai.r Force Exchange Service (AAFES), a nonappropriated fund instrumentality (NAFI). The Director explains that[7,240 Republic of Korea (ROK) soldiers are attached as augmentation units to the Eighth U.S. Army and are provided logi- stical support. As part of this logistical support, each ROK soldier is issued initially, monthly, and semi-annually a health and comfort kit to provide the basic health and comfort items reqired in an American environment. (The kit is composed of such items as shampoo, razor blades, chewing gum, and shoe polish.) Presently!the various items making up the kit are acquired by three activities located in Korea, Hawaii and Sacramento, California. The items are then shipped to Korea for assembly into kits. The Director explains thatCAAFES is capable of supplying all items through its regular supply channels since all items are in its normal stockage.:AAFES,;.the Director states,

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