[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 124 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33420-33421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15774]



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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Interagency Sharing of Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite Quantity 
Contracts for Information Technology

AGENCY: Information Technology Service, GSA.

ACTION: Notice with request for comments.

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SUMMARY: GSA will be considering changes to the Federal Information 
Resources Management Regulation (FIRMR) to provide agencies more 
flexibility in making future contracts for information technology (IT) 
available for use by all agencies. Some companies have requested, 
however, that existing contracts for IT products and services be 
amended to open them up for use by all agencies. GSA is seeking 
comments on whether it would be appropriate to consider a policy that 
would allow existing IT contracts to be amended for use by other 
agencies.

DATES: Comments are due: August 28, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to GSA/KAR, 18th and F Streets, NW., 
room 3224, Washington, DC 20405, Attn: B. Walter MacDermid, or 
delivered to that address between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
B. Watler MacDermid, GSA, Office of Information Technology Policy and 
Leadership (KAR), 18th and F Streets, NW., room 3224, Washington, DC 
20405, telephone FTS/Commercial (202) 501-3194 (v) or (202) 501-0657 
(tdd).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: GSA is responsible under the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, for the 
economic and efficient acquisition of IT resources. In conformance with 
that objective, GSA will be proposing FIRMR changes to provide agencies 
more flexibility in making future IT contracts available for use by all 
agencies. However, during the past year, several companies requested 
that certain existing contracts for IT products and services be amended 
to open them up for use by all agencies.

    GSA has taken the position that this would not be fair to other 
companies, and contract scope changes of this [[Page 33421]] magnitude 
should not be made after contract award. Others have suggested that a 
policy covering all existing contracts would, in fact, be fair to all 
companies. As a result, GSA is seeking comments from a broader universe 
and especially from IT companies and other interested parties on the 
following proposal:
    Policy Proposal: GSA is considering allowing agencies to open up 
all existing indefinite-delivery indefinite quantity type contracts for 
information technology products and services awarded under the 
authority of Public law 89-306 for the use of all agencies to a maximum 
of 20% of the total contract amount.

    Dated: June 14, 1995.
Francis A. McDonough,
Deputy Commissioner for Information Technology Policy and Leadership.
[FR Doc. 95-15774 Filed 6-27-95; 8:45 am]
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