CONTRACTS FOR PERSONAL SERVICES UNDER APPROVED MEDICAL OFFICE PROJECTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00434A000300070010-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: July 20, 1951
• Content Type: MEMO

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? UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO Chief, Medical Services DATE: 20 July 1951
FROM Deputy Comptroller
SUBJECT: Contracts for Personal Services under Approved
Medical Office Projects
REFS: as Our Yjemo, dtd 10 July 51, to Chief, Medical Services,
Same Subject
b. Your Memo, dtd 12 July 51, to Deputy Comptroller; Same
Subject
1. The interpretation of my memorandum of 10 July 1951
on the above subject as evidenced by your reply dated 12 July
1951 indicates the possibility of a misunderstanding on your
part as to my intentions and the action requested. As you know,
I am the Special Contracting Officer for the Agency, and, in
this capacity, service all offices of CIA in the matter of con-
tractual personal services. A vast number of contracts are
consummated each week. Appropriate contracts cannot and may not
be drafted and consummated in the absence of certain information
ndicating that the employment of the persons is authorized in
n appropriate project, that funds are available for the payment
f obligations established, that appropriate security clearance
has been granted for the services of the particular individual,
end that various other requirements of the Agency have been ful-
f illed.
U 2. The delivery to my office of contracts which have been
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accepted by the principa
concerned, and approved by General Counsel as to legal form is
only a part of the problem. Such a procedure places the burden
hupon the Contracting Officer to ascertain what project of many
the contract are in consonance with the activity contemplated
Iin the project, of verifying that appropriate clearance has been
secured and, lastly, that numerous other requirements have been
Jappropriately satisfied.
3. It is a simple fact that the Contracting Officer does
not have the time nor the staff to undertake these responsibilities
in the absence of a procedure which will simplify or obviate the
need for detailed investigation and confirmation.
!i.. It is for this reason that I outlined to you a suggested
procedure wherein your office would supply the information,which
is readily available to you and thereby simplify and expedite
the entire contractual procedure, and that you were requested to
"thousand of projects is involved, of verifying that the-terms of
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indicate on each contract tue specific project concerned al .,I(
and date ui' the security clearance issued for each in..z: w uta.i,.
Lastly, for either individual contracts or for groups of pia-ticula
contracts, it is necessary that the General Counsel and the :on-
tractin? Officer have adequate information as to i,he o;perat:.onal
circumstances, the qualifications of the individual, inc th, con-
templated relationships between tree agency and the in, ivida. L .s ,.n
order that appropriate contracts may be written. i;iis can est.
be done by discussion, but in some cases a memorandum is ad-Qua,(.
a. With respect to the particular group of contracts c.ris.c
we returned to you, it is again requested that you supply a tab=z-
lation by individual of the type and date of security clear tnce.
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