NASA SUPPORT SERVICES CONTRACTS $100,000 AND OVER, FISCAL YEAR 1968-Continued

A-V.

NAS 9-5143.

Technical.

Administrative and engineering.

do.

Technical

Administrative.

Federal Electric.

NAS 9-5208

General Precision.

NAS 9-7523.

Technical and administrative.
Engineering

Kelsey-Seybold.

NAS 9-6568.

Administrative.

Klate Holt.

NAS 9-5045

Facilities.

176

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930

930

APPENDIX B

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION,
Washington, D.C., October 30, 1967.

To: See distribution.

From: Associate Administrator for Organization and Management.
Subject: Performance of support service functions by contract.

The Civil Service Commission's General Counsel has issued an opinion challenging certain NASA support service contracts on the grounds that they are tantamount to the procurement of personnel and, therefore, are in violation of the Federal personnel laws. This opinion was prepared for the General Accounting Office (GAO), at its request, and has also been furnished to NASA. The opinion is presently under study at GAO and in NASA as to its effect on our operations. In order to insure the orderly continuation of NASA's program responsibilities pending resolution of the questions raised by the opinion, it has become necessary to define interim guidelines concerning the contracting for performance of support services.

Therefore, until further notice, the following guidelines shall govern the contracting of support service functions.

1. A support service function, currently being performed at an installation by civil service personnel, shall not be contracted out. Where such functions are presently being performed partially by civil service personnel and partially by contract, no contract will be entered into for that portion that is being performed by civil service personnel.

2. No new support-service function, i.e., one which has not been previously performed by the installation, shall be contracted for without prior approval of the Associate Administrator for Organization and Management.

3. As to support-service functions currently being performed by contract: A. No new contracts or extensions of current contracts (whether by option or otherwise) are to be entered into for a period in excess of 1 year. B. No new contracts in excess of $100,000, nor any extensions of existing contracts in excess of $100,000 are to be entered into without prior approval of the Associate Administrator for Organization and Management.

C. In order that NASA Headquarters may be informed in a timely manner of any contemplated significant change in any service functions being contracted for, notice is to be given at least 30 days prior to any proposed action under any contract or any extension thereof that is expected to result in an increase in the estimated cost, level of effort, numbers of personnel needed to perform the function, or change in the scope of work.

4. Prior to entering into any new support service contracts, or any extension of support service contracts, notice of such intent is to be reported to headquarters in accordance with the attached "Notice of intent to award (or extend) a support service contract." Such notice is to be given between 60 and 30 days prior either to (i) solicitation leading to award or (ii) extension of such contract. In the case of an extension of a contract, the 60- to 30-day period means 60 to 30 days prior to the exercise of the option or the entering into of an agreement to extend. It does not mean 60 to 30 days prior to such extension taking effect.

5. All requests for approvals under, or exceptions to, the above guidelines shall be submitted by the director of the installation, or his delegated representative, to the Associate Administrator for Organization and Management via the Director of Procurement. All notices required by the above guidelines shall be submitted to the Director of Procurement.

HAROLD B. FINGER.

Attachment.

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