PROPOSED RENTAL OF A (Sanitized) UNIVAC MACHINE UNDER TERMS OF THE GSA SCHEDULE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78B04770A002500050009-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 9, 2005
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: December 1, 1961
• Content Type: MFR

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1 December 1961
SUBJECT: Proposed Rental of al
]Univac Machine
1. The teletype of November 29, 1961 from
s discussed with ief of the
Purchase Branch, Procurement Division, L, on November 30, 1961
in view of the difficulties anticipated by. in a purchase
under the GSA Schedule. xplained that placing an order
for equipment or services under the GSA Schedule, as distinguished
from making a construction contract through GSA, does not mean that
the order must pass through GSA channels or personnel. The Schedule,
in the case of materials and services, is simply a basic agreement
with the contractor as to prices and the fundamentals of sale which
are to apply to all Government procurement. But each agency of the
Government makes its own separate contract and works out its own
particular arrangements with the contractor. The individual
contract incorporates the basic agreements set out in the Schedule
but is otherwise strictly the affair of the individual agency. GSA
does not see the contract or take any part in its administration.
As regards the Schedule provisions themselves, there is nothing,
as far as knew, to require that the details of the
intended use of the equipment be worked out to any given extent
before use is started, nor are there any rigid requirements as to
pre-established programs, test periods, maintenance or training courses
which, as far as could be determined, would interfer with the rental
arrangements which NPIC wants to make.
2. Under the circumstances, the recommended course is that NPIC
proceed with arrangements to rent the 490 machine under the Schedule.
Every agency of the Government is required to purchase through the
Schedule unless good reasons to do otherwise are established. When
the special features of this particular rental agreement, as now set
forth in the proposed request for a Letter of Intent, are tentatively
approved, we probably should discuss them in detail with the local
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in letter of intent form. In this way we can eliminate any remaining
doubt as to the practicability of our use of the Schedule.
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