AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE CONTRACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00879R001100030144-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Sequence Number: 144
• Publication Date: March 18, 1959
• Content Type: CONT

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CENTRAL INTELLIG CE AO 1CY
CONTRACTING OFFICERS
D ERMINATI0NS AND FINDINGS
AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE CONTRACT
The Central. Intelligence Agency proposes to enter into a
ITE Corporations. Boston, -ssachusetts, for
loitaticn equipwnt and photo-
I hereby find that this procurement* Project. C
mated to cost $200,000 sad is chargeable to Fiscal Year 1959
and is for the work described above. I also find that this pros
went is in the interest of National Defen., and that it will be
certified by the Director of Central Intelligence in accordance with
procedure approved by the DCI on 15 December 1936, to be for objects
of a confidential, extraordinary and emergency nature and therefore
within the purview of procurement authority of the Agency as stated
in Section .10(b) of Public Law 110, Mot Congress. Procurement by
formal advertising of the services called for by the proposed Con-
tract No. BB-300 Mould result in public disclosure of the nature and
character of the operational photographic system, and would thereby
jeopardise the security of this project.
I hereby determine, as Contracting Officer for this contract,
that the necessity and authority for negotiation of this contract
have been adequately documented by proper Agency authority, and
that the proposed contract t necessarily be negotiated without
formal advertising.
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