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Article #9138NASA procurement bureaucracy at work
From: Jay Glass
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 19:00
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 19:00
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Want to get NASA to move quicker and produce more results? Try reforming the federal procurement system. Case in point: in order to get an otherwise-free upgrade of Microsoft Word 3.x to 4.0, I needed to write a full purchase order for the $5.50 handling fee. Worse yet, it was returned to me two weeks later because I didn't attach a "purchase request review checklist" and an "acquisition-data processing management review summary." The paperwork is the same as that required for a $65K purchase of real-time control s/w for my lab, and comparable to that for a $250K university research grant. Aargh! I'm sure that other NASA employees could describe similar horror stories. Jay Glass glass@pluto.arc.nasa.gov -------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PLUTO.ARC.NASA.GOV!GLASS From: GLASS@PLUTO.ARC.NASA.GOV (Jay Glass) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: NASA procurement bureaucracy at work Message-ID: <630097208.0.GLASS@PLUTO.ARC.NASA.GOV> Date: 19 Dec 89 19:00:08 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 15