LEGISLATION RELATING TO LIMITS AND PURCHASE PRICES FOR GOODS AND SERVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81M00980R001800050023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 7, 1978
• Content Type: MF

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07 JUL 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Legislation Staff, OLC
FROM:
SUBJECT: Legislation Relating to Limits and
Purchase Prices for Goods and Services
REFERENCE: Memo fm C/LS/OLC dtd 3 July 78
to C/PMS/OL (OLC 78-2444)
1. A copy of the unprinted floor amendment furnished
with reference has been reviewed by this Office to determine
what impact, if any, it may have on Agency acquisition
activity, especially as it is affected by the current pre-
vailing inflation condition. The Office of Logistics and
the Agency, in its acquisition process, subscribes to and
supports any meaningful effort to curtail or eliminate
inflation which is the goal of the proposed amendment to
Section 615.
2. The Office of Logistics/PMS had a representative
attend the initial strategy session on 26 May 78 conducted
by OFPP at which time the "Anti Inflation Council" was
established. It comprised those executive department
components which spend the lion's share of the Federal
Government's $81 billion annual purchases of goods and
services. This Council was to convene on 7 July 78 for
a discussion of the draft OFPP instruction on the anti
inflation issue preliminary to its issuance. It is expected.
that the DOD position (a Council member) will fully consider
the many aspects of the inflation issue consistent with
one of the exceptions stated by the President in his
18 May 78 memorandum and mentioned in Senator DeConcini's
proposed amendment as follows:
(1) would seriously jeopardize our
national defense, or . . . 11
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3. Since Agency acquisition is generally accomplished
under the Defense Acquisition Regulator (DAR) and our Agency
effort concerns national defense, we do not foresee any
serious obstacle resulting from enactment of the amendment
to Section 6.15 proposed by Senator DeConcini.
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