PROCUREMENT REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68B00969R000100090016-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: December 8, 1966
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Procurement Report
8 December 1966
1. I ran into Sid Gottleib in the hall yesterday. He said
that the four Directorates were in agreement on what should be done
in relation to the main recommendation about how to "centralize" R&D
procurement. He noted that it took something like the report to get
everyone together, and he said he had won a bet with
over the likely outcome.
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2. Sid said he was surprised that a group as perceptive as
the consultants (he feels their fact-finding and analysis work was of
a very high order) missed on the best way to accomplish their objec-
tives. He said the consultants found that procurement worked best when
contract officers and R&D types were together, but that rather than
centralizing contracting officers together in the DDS&T, as was recom-
mended, they should be assigned out to the R&D elements, working under
a single policy guide. They should have real authority to contract,
subject to the level of authority of the component to which they are
assigned, and their fitness reports would be written there. This appa-
rently is the line that the Directorates are agreed on taking in their
responses to the report. I told Sid that sucha line was considered
by the consultants, but that they were impressed with the dollar volume
of DDS&T procurement, the fact that the basic expertise was there, and
that this led them to a proposal to "centralize" there.
3. Sid didn't say what positions were taken on other issues.
The answers are due about now.
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S. D. Breckinridge
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