LETTER TO MR. ROBERT A. COYER (Sanitized)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00933R000400030023-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 7, 1980
• Content Type: LETTER

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~i January 15JO
Mr. Robert A. Coyer
Assistant Commissioner
office of Policy and Planning
General Services A.t1ministration
Washington, D.C. 0403
. Coyer -.,
Thank you for allowing us additional tiw-tcr to review
ara co n-ent on a ro osal (Project 79.62) to imams the
Federal Property ? anaag cent Regulations (FPM ) The Wro--
pQs;l provides standard terminology for a ;e in solicits
documents that rec;uire comslliartce with Federal. Information
Pro,ossing Standards (rips) 60, 61, 62, and 63, the recontly
pro*-ulg .tee input/output (1/0) interface eria; s of standard s.
e proposal also 4_=rovi .a s reference to YIPS Publication 66,
Standard Industrial Claassifccltion (SIC) Codes.
We notice in the:ropc+saals that procedures for verifi-
cation of Qoa ,fiance witia PIPS will be issued by t to atio,ial
Bureau of Standards, We assume: we will have an o lortunity
to review the procedures before they are paibl ialie 1.
The I/O interface series of FIPS require 'ha . a waiver
be obtained from the Secretary of Go ere blears soiicitatioa
documents are issued. Approval of the waiver woul4 be granted
if, in the judge cent of the Secretary and song other consider-
ations, a major economic or operational impact would occur
through conformance, with the : tafdard..
Tha rer uirea ent that waiver ap rov, must granted
before solicitation docu:aents are issued coult'- be, in some
cases, a detriment to the Government.. One z shod of evalua
ting an ? cono nic impact is through be evaluation of res onses
to a solicitation. Also, one r ethzoi of evaluation of new
technology and its potential impact on
c:3 Is through the evaluation of res;
ioa.al require-
to a solicitation.
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We believe that an agency should have sc sat latitude as to
when and where in the solicitation procssa it will request
a waiver. Therefore, suggest that the sentence 1.11 the fcnxr
FIPS that reads, "No action shall be taken to issue solici-
tation documents or to order equipment.-which does ,riot conform
to this standard..." be changed by deleting "to issue solici-
tation documents or . " We also suggest that the propose-:
amendment to the FP14R's changed accordingly to permit
waiver re juests and approval after solicitation evaluation.
This approach would permit evaluation of all offerors, both
those compliant with FIRS as well as these that are non-
compliant, would provide more complete information to d.eter s ine
if there are significant advantages to the Government for
acquiring a system that is not compliant with FIPS and would
still be within th spirit of the standards Program.
Sincerely,
STATINTL
STATINTL
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