CLARIFICATION OF PROCUREMENT APPROVALS ON CERTAIN TYPES OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-04723A000100100017-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 2000
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: February 11, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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11 February 1970
wMAORANDUM FOR: Chairman, Inform ation Processing Board
UB ECT ; Clarification of Procurement Approvals on
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Certain Types of Office Equipmen
1. The present guidelines and procedures for management
and control of EDP equipment require that Executive Director-
Comptroller approval be obtained before acquiring any new computer
system. Certain definitions and descriptions have presented
problems in classifying computer equipment. A case in point is a
recent requisition for a Marchant Cogito 1016 PR Programmable
Electronic Printing Calculator. As can be seen from the attached
literature, the manufacturer describes this equipment in terms
that are frequently applied to the largest kinds of computers. but
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the picture and price ($2, 800) tell us that this is a glamor
calculator.
2. 1 would like to raise the question of whether the Executive
ctor-Comptroller wishes to have such items forwarded to him
or the individual information Processing Coordinators should be
concerned with the procurement of such items. However, because
Of ambiguous definitions and descriptions, operating personnel who
want to procure this kind of equipment and those in the approving
,nnels (Office Directors. Information Processing Coordinators,
and Office of Logistics) assume that special handling is required
for such procurement requests.
S. In order to simplify the distinction between that equipment
which needs tighter control and coordination by Information Processing
Coordinators and higher levels of management and that equipment
which is amply controlled by normal Office Director review, I
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recommend that the Information Processing Staff /OPPB prepare
a list of computer-like equipment which can be exempted from
IPC review and approvals. This list need not be all-inclusive
initially; it can be updated as requisitions for new kinds of equip-
ment are encountered.
Science and Techno
cc: Chief. Information Processing Staff
Information Processing Coordinators
Chief, Procurement Division, CAL
Attachment: a/ s
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