WANG LABORATORIES PRESENTATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85-00142R000100170006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 17, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: December 2, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Logistics
FROM:
Chief, Procurement Management Staff, OL
SUBJECT: Wang Laboratories Presentation
1. I have reviewed the December 1983 Employee Bulletin on
the subject and must say that I have some concerns. I am not
sure who this memorandum should go to and so am forwarding it to
you for whatever action you deem appropriate.
2. As you know, one of the primary responsibilities of my
Staff is to be a contact point for contractors wishing to do
business with CIA. We try to handle such contacts by mail and
our standard procedure is to obtain as much information as
possible on the vendor and distribute it to various components
which may have a requirement for the services or products
offered. If there seems to be general interest in the
contractor's product, we will work with appropriate components
to establish an audience for oral presentation of the
contractor's product line. We have run into very few situations
over the last couple of years when it seemed appropriate to set
up such a presentation.
3. The previously referred to employee bulletin, I think,
goes well beyond anything we have ever done for any vendor
wishing to present its products and services to this Agency.
After the showing had been arranged, someone called
who, in turn, talked with me in terms of any potential problem.
I told John at that time that I saw no problem except that the
doctrine of fairness is at the very heart of our entire federal
procurement process. Whatever we do for one contractor, we must
be ready to do for all other contractors. In this case, I think
that we have done a great deal to benefit Wang Laboratories when
we have set up a show in the Headquarters auditorium, with
government-furnished transportation for employees from various
out buildings. While Wang word processors have been established
as an Agency standard, we certainly have not established other
Wang products as standards and should not be providing Wang
Laboratories preferential treatment. If IBM, SDC, or any other
contractor comes in with a demand to present its products in the
Headquarters auditorium and wants us to provide notice to all
employees, as well as ground transportation to and from the
presentation, I feel that we will have to accommodate such a
request.
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SUBJECT: Wang Laboratories Presentation
4. In closing, I recognize the importance of a smooth
interface between ourselves and Wang, however, I feel that the
Headquarters auditorium show was a major overkill. In the
future, such presentations should be coordinated with the office
of Logistics, and we should, of course, be prepared to accord
treatment similar to that provided to Wang Laboratories. This
memorandum, along with the employee bulletin, will be
distributed to members of the Agency Contract Review Board and
we will continue to look at all Wang products, other than the
Agency-standard word processors, on a basis competitive with
other suppliers.
Attachment:
EB No. 1064
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EMPLOYEE
BULLETIN
WANG LABORATORIES PRESENTATIONS
1. On Friday, 9 December 1983, Wang Laboratories, Inc., will
pruvide an update on --.fw products in the Headquarters Auditorium. This
c sentat lo,.-, is a conbbine-d effort by the Agency Wang Users Group and Word
Fru-essing Branch of the Office of Data Processing. There will be two
sessions with a question-and-answer period following each session. The
first session is sche,3uled from 10 to 11 a.m., and the second session
f r.,m 1 to 2 P.M.
2. iaul Kennedy of Wang Marketing will be the key speaker as well
host for the following agenda:
Word Processing Plus (WP Plus)
Wang Professional Image Computer (PIC)
Tempest Professional Computer
Digital Voice Exchange (DVX)
Network inp~
3. Demonstrations of the Wang PIC will be held in the IA Corridor
of the Headquarters Building continously after the first session.
4. Round-trip transportation will be provided to employees in
outlying buildings who wish to attend the 1 p.m. presentation in the
Headquarters Auditorium. The departure schedule will be as follows:
at 12 m. (noon)
Ames Building at 12 m. (noon)
Chamber of Commerce Building at 12:15 p.m.
at 12 m. (noon)
at 12:15 p.m.
All buses will depart headquarters at approximately 2 p.m., immediately
following the program, for the return trip to the outlying buildings.
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