OFFICE OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND EVALUATION General Services Building, Eighteenth and F Streets NW., Washington, DC 20405 [For the General Services Administration statement of organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 41, Part 105-53] The General Services Administration establishes policy for and provides economical and efficient management of Government property and records, including construction and operation of buildings; procurement and distribution of supplies; utilization and disposal of real and personal property; transportation, traffic, and communications management; and management of the governmentwide automatic data processing resources program. Its functions are carried out at three levels of organization: the central office, regional offices, and field activities. The General Services Administration agencywide acquisition policy program, including the establishment of major agency acquisition goals and objectives. The Office of Acquisition Policy has a major role in developing, maintaining, issuing, and administering guiding principles via the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), which is applicable to all Federal agencies. It chairs the Civilian Agency Acquisition Council and provides administrative support through the FAR Secretariat. The Office develops GSA implementing and supplementing principles required by FAR, which is published as the General Services Administration Acquisition Regulation. The Office manages the agency's internal system for the suspension and debarment of nonresponsive contractors and a governmentwide system for exchanging information on debarred, suspended, and ineligible parties. The Office also is responsible for overseeing the agency's acquisition information system and serves as agency coordinator for the Federal Procurement Data System. The Office's Federal Acquisition Institute fosters and promotes governmentwide career management and training programs to develop a professional workforce and coordinates governmentwide studies to improve the procurement process. For further information, call 202-501-1043. Enterprise Development The mission of the Office of Enterprise Development is to promote and facilitate programs and activities that support an environment that provides "Access to Opportunity" to small, minority, and women business owners to participate in GSA contracting Region nationwide. To accomplish this, the Office plans, implements, and evaluates comprehensive agencywide procurement preference programs, including: the Small Business Program, the Women in Business Program, the Minority Business Enterprise Program, the Subcontracting Program, and the Mandatory Source Program, among others. The Office coordinates and develops policies that regulate the operation and implementation of the Small Business Programs under sections 8 and 15 of the Small Business Act. The Office, through the Small Business Center Program, provides assistance, information, and counseling to small businesses interested in pursuing Federal Government contracts, and conducts outreach, seminars, liaison, and source listing for small and minority businesses. The Small Business Centers assist agency procurement officials in the establishment of subcontracting plans and act as liaisons between GSA and the Small Business Administration. The Small Business Centers conduct on-site reviews of vendor subcontracting plans to ensure compliance with the terms of the approved plan. For further information, call 202-501-1021. Small Business Center Directory NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION-Washington, DC NORTHEAST AND CARIBBEAN REGION-New York, NY Contract Appeals The General Services Address Rm. 1050, 7th & D Sts. SW., 20407 Telephone 202-708-5804 617-565-8100 212-264-1234 215-656-5523 404-331-5103 312-353-5383 816-926-7203 817-334-3284 303-326-7408 415-522-2700 206-931-7956 independent Government agencies. The Board is also empowered to hear and decide protests arising out of automatic data processing procurements governmentwide. Although the Board is located within the agency, it functions as an independent tribunal. For further information, contact the Board of Ethics The Office of Ethics is Federal Telecommunications Service The current Federal Telecommunications Service (FTS) was established by GSA Order 5440.468 on September 8, 1995, by merging FTS2000 and the Local Services Program. The principal components of the FTS program are FTS2000, Local Telecommunications Services, and the Post-FTS2000 program. FTS2000 This program provides longdistance voice and data services to Federal agencies. In December 1988, GSA competitively awarded two separate contracts to AT&T and Sprint to provide long-distance telecommunications services to Federal agencies. These contracts, which provide for services rather than equipment, replaced the 25year-old Federal Telecommunications System (FTS) with FTS2000. The Service's customers can select from a number of long-distance telecommunications services provided by FTS2000, including switched voice service, dedicated transmission service, packet switched service, video transmission service, switched data service, and switched digital integrated service. Local Telecommunications Program This program has three major reimbursable activities: switched services, purchase of telecommunications services (POTS), and the telecommunications services contract (TSC). The purchase of telecommunication services program provides a variety of new and reconditioned telephone station equipment, digital private branch exchange systems, wireless equipment, installation, relocation, wiring, and cabling. The telecommunications services contract is a nationwide contract with five regional ordering offices. It has a broad range of telecommunications services that can be used by any Federal agency. It offers complete technical support in six functional areas: strategic and technical planning, requirement analysis, design and engineering, acquisition support, implementation and integration, and operations support. Post-FTS2000 The current FTS2000 contracts expire in December 1998. In December 1994, in conjunction with the Interagency Management Council, GSA issued the Post-FTS2000 Program Strategy as the Government's strategy for acquiring telecommunications services in the post-FTS2000 environment. Released in February 1996, the Strategy provides for multiple comprehensive telecommunications service contracts offering all services and providing service worldwide, where commercially available. It supports the National Performance Review initiative to develop the Government service information infrastructure. Other contracting efforts that are part of the post-FTS2000 area Federal wireless, international direct dial, and cable and wiring. For further information, call 703–285-1020. Information Technology Service The Information Technology Service is responsible for the coordination and direction of a comprehensive, governmentwide program for the management, procurement, and utilization of automated data processing and local telecommunications equipment and services; planning and directing programs for improving Federal records and information management practices; and providing information to the public through the Federal Information Center. Governmentwide Information Resources Management Assistance The General Services Administration provides governmentwide programs to assist Federal agencies in managing their information resources. The Office of Information Technology Integration (ITI) provides technical and contracting assistance through three complementary programs: the Federal Systems Integration and Management System (FEDSIM); the Federal Computer Acquisition Center (FEDCAC); and the Federal Information System Support Program (FISSP). This assistance is provided on a reimbursable, nonmandatory basis to agencies utilizing the system. The Federal Systems Integration and Management System provides technical and contractual services to Federal agencies in acquisition, integration, management, and the use of information systems and information technology. The Federal Computer Acquisition Center competitively conducts large dollar value information processing resources acquisitions for Federal agencies. These acquisitions include systems hardware; systems software; and associated services such as maintenance, training, and systems analysis support. The Federal Information System Support Program allows ITI to consolidate relatively small, quickreaction, technical services project requirements for other agencies in order to reduce costs. For further information, contact the Office of Information Technology Policy and Boss Program, that help Federal agencies prepare for, conduct, and implement major information technology acquisitions. For further information, contact the Office of Information Technology Acquisition Information Security The Office of Information Security provides worldwide support to all Government activities conducting sensitive and classifies national security, diplomatic, and Department of Defense missions. The Office provides a comprehensive range of services for information systems and participates in the development of governmentwide information security policies in support of Federal, civil, and Department of Defense activities. This Office provides the technical expertise, personnel, logistics, training, and facilities necessary to manage and support critical Government communications. For further information, contact the Office of Office of Emerging Technology The Office of Emerging Technology plans, manages, and directs activities that promote the identification, development, and use of current and emerging technologies in the Federal Government. The Office develops strategies for integrating Federal, State, and local government applications to form a synergetic approach to use information technology to improve the delivery of |