European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes june 1985 of base catching flak from contractor officers bypassed competitive bidding Rule by Cox news service Washington officials at Robins air Force base in Warner avoided using competitive procurement procedures in the Purchase of Worth of Library material by splitting the order into 10 smaller the 10 orders amounted to a total that would have required the air Force to advertise and compare competitive but the Library material Micro filmed copies of thousands of pages of documents were split into 10 separate each of which was below a Legal records instead of buying Worth of microfilmed the air Force bought then then Worth and so All on one All from the same transaction challenged now a disappointed contractor has challenged the claiming that if it had been afforded an Opportunity to bid on the it would have saved the government More than the air Force contracting officer John Pacosa declined Friday to comment on the matter because of a pending responding to the the air Force said its own comparison of prices indicated information marketing International was Only a few Hundred dollars below information handling systems and that the additional Cost of making hundreds of individual purchases would More than offset any government lawyers have not ruled on the the transaction was a tiny piece of a racist leaders indicted on arms charges fort up the top two leaders of a White paramilitary group whose compound was raided by Federal officers after a fou Day standoff in april have been indicted on weapons James Leader of the the sword and the Arm of the and his top Kerry were among six people named in indictments handed Down the indictments charge the suspects with a variety of weapons As Well As the attempted bombing of a natural Gas pipe line near the interstate transportation of jewelry stolen in a Texarkana Pawn shop robbery and the interstate transportation of a stolen motor the indictments charge that weapons found in the groups Possession following the fou Day standoff at the groups com Pound near Mountain which ended peacefully april included several land explosive Booby trap 22 improvised hand a japanese made machine gun and a sawed off Noble was arrested about Fri Day at the groups Camp by Federal agents and state who was arrested april 22 at the and two others were already in the four others named in the indictment Gary Richard Timothy Wayne Rudy Loewen and David Giles were arrested later in the Day in Spring huge Puzzle the Federal governments billion annual procurement aides to Jack chairman of the House government operations and Barbara said both members of Congress were increasingly concerned that the governments procurement system is not competitive very angry described by defense department pub Lic affairs men As furious and very defense Secretary Caspar Wein Berger called a press conference thursday to announce he had removed a rear Admi a Captain and a commander from their commands at Miramar naval air station in san Weinberger complained that the Navy paid to Grumman aerospace for two ashtrays used on e2c Hawkeye in defense department officials the Navy had paid for a socket Grumman has offered to refund Money it charged for the two Ash trays and five the microfilmed documents bought for the air Force base at Warner Robins last fall involved a quieter series of records show that base personnel last summer began processing paper work involved in renewing a base subscription for the microfilmed summary made a request for proposals was published in the governments Commerce business which each Day summarizes several Hundred procurements the government expects to ranging from multimillion Dollar de sense contracts to proposed scientific re Searh projects and needed janitorial serv ices at various Federal the procurements Are published so that would be suppliers can submit competitive after the Robins fab procurement was summarized in Commerce business a representative of Imi contacted base personnel and complained that the word ing would dictate that the company chief win the the two companies sell Cartridge driven copies of thousands upon thousands of published pages of information such As the accepted engineering Stan Dards for High pressure the Stan Dard sizes for nuts and regulations issued by government historical documents for Library allo nothing provision Imi said the reason its competitor was destined to get the air Force contract or had it in Federal procurement system Slang was that the request for proposals said while the air Force wanted to buy scores of reels of Micro filmed it contained an All or nothing since a Small number of the reels listed in the request for proposals Are sold Only by the allo nothing clause would make it impossible for another company to submit a the Imi Man he added that if the air Force went through with the would Challenge the Deal As the air Force withdrew its re quest for without announcing what it was the air Force purchased the Micro film without receiving any competitive bids records show on Robins fab personnel issued consecutive Pur Chase orders f0965085f0081 through f0965085f0090 to the documents were purchased from a schedule of prices is had previously negotiated with the governments general services the Agency that polices most government the maximum amount that a govern ment Agency could spend for items Pur chased off the general services administration schedule for is was my of the 10 Robins fab Purchase orders sail within this they totalled records one of the reels of microfilm included in the air Purchase was the Federal acquisition or miss ibid by the Genera services the far spells out procedures Ife Jacal agencies must follow when they buy equip ment or contract for outside it consists of 700 Telephone director size with tiny stipulate a Dollar chapter subchapter Parit Stife part paragraph states most schedules stipulate Dollar amount or unit Quantity above Wardh agencies Inot submit orders and con tractors shall not accept inhere May be maximum order limitation each item As Well As for the total ordering offices not reduce or their requirements simply to avoid a Maxi mum order in a protest subsequently filed Aga hot the Imi said it also has a schedule of prices with serv ices administration in an item by item comparison Between its prices and those of Imi charged that the government would have saved if it had bought from rather distributed by the new York times news service mount Helens lava dome grows the lava dome inside the Crater of mount eruption is continuing during the week the Erupi Iii is the first for the Washine Helens is and a predicted accompanied by minor ton state Volcano since