CONTRACTING OFFICERS DETERMINATIONS AND FINDINGS AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE CONTRACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00878R000100090057-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 26, 2007
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: April 4, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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4 April 1955
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S
DETERMINATIONS AND FINDINGS
AUTHORITY TO NEGOTIATE CONTRACT
The Central Intelligence Agency proposes to enter into a contract
25X1 with The Ramo-Wooldridge Corporation, Los Angeles, California, for certain
special electronic systems and related equipment.
25X1 nd that this procurement, Project is estimated to 25X1
cost is chargeable to fiscal year 195 n s, appropriation
and is for experimental, developmental and research work. I also
find that this procurement is in the interest of national defense and that
it has been certified y the Director of Central Intelligence under date
of 29 March 1955, to be for objects of a confidential, extraordinary and
emergency nature and therefore within the purview of the procurement
authority of the Agency as stated in Section 10 (b) of Public Law 110,
81st Congress, Procurement by formal advertising of the supplies and
services called for by the proposed contract would result in public disclo-
sure of the character and components of such supplies and services, and
would thereby jeopardize this security classification.
I hereby determine, as Contracting Officer for this Contract, that
the necessity and authority for negotiation of this Contract have been
adequately documented by proper Agency authority, and that the proposed
contract must necessarily be negotiated without formal advertising.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CONTRACTING OFFICER'S
DETERMINATIONS AND FINDINGS
AUTHORITY TO USE COST-PLUS A-FIXED-FEE TYPE OF CONTRACT
Upon the basis of the following findings and determinations
which I hereby make as Contracting Officer pursuant to the pro-
visions of Public Law 110, 81st Congress and authority delegated
thereunder, the proposed contract described below may be entered
into on a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis.
25X1 FINDINGS 25X1
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1. The proposed contract with the Ram -Wooldridge Corporation,
Los Angeles, California for certain special c systems and
related ipment ha ermated cost of plus a fixed fee
o which is -gam-p f the estimated cost exclusive of fixed
fee.
2. The exact nature and extent of the work covered by the pro-
posed contract, and the precise method of performing that work, cannot
be established in advance, but must be freely subject to improvisation
and change as the work progresses.
3. The costs of performing the work under the proposed contract
cannot be accurately forecast so as to permit the undertaking of such
work for a fixed price.
will be approximatel
25X1
DETERMINATIONS
1. It is impracticable to secure services of the kind or
quality required without the use of the proposed type of contract.
2. The estimated cost of the proposed contract, exclusive of
fee, is at the present time. Existing requirements, however,
indicate that the eve
ntual cost of this contract, exclusive of fee,
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Date: 31 March 1955 25X1
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