EXTERNAL CONTRACTS INVENTORY SYSTEM

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: November 28, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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DCI/ICS 83-4051
28 November 1983
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
erector, Intelligence Community Staff
SUBJECT: External Contracts Inventory System
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1. After reviewing and approving requests for analytical studies, I
often wonder whether our study managers have been able to utilize all existing
past contracting efforts. I would assume that there is an uncertainty
throughout the Intelligence Community if a study manager has really been able
to find all ongoing or past investigations either to reference or to
supplement a study. In this connection it might be advantageous for the
Community to start at this time to build a file on COINS which would provide
the following:
a. date study started and contract number,
b. unclassified title of the study,
c. name of contractor,
d. name of the COTR and sponsoring office with a telephone number,
e. short narrative description of the study (50 words
approximately), and
f. dollar value of the contract.
Because of the security classification of some analytical contract activity,
item "d" might not be provided.
2. I believe that the above information could be prepared by the COTR
for COINS entry when the request for procurement services is drafted. After
the system has been in operation for a period of several months, a COTR could
access the COINS file to determine contract activity relating to a
contemplated study subject.
3. The use of a COINS file as described above might provide the
Community with ready availability of study information, save resources by
providing an advanced starting point for an investigation, and answer
Congressional concerns when external contract resources are questioned. I
would appreciate receiving your comments regarding the above and the
difficulty anticipated within CIA in implementing such a system.
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