CHAPTER Il, SECTION 7
piling a Commodity Stock List covering the
activities at EPG. At the commencement of
HARDTACK, approximately 11,000 line items
had been classified in 35 categories, standardized nomenclature had been drafted for each
commodity, and the printed lists had been assembled into books which were issued to the various
offices. During HARDTACK, the number of
Preparation of equipment requisitions was
coordinated with Jobsite to permit sufficient
time for a thorough review of specifications,
types, and quantities before procurement action
was initiated.
Special planning was given the over-all
equipment program to:
line items identified, described, and assigned
numerals totaled approximately 20,000, resulting
1.
supply, construction, and maintenance offices.
Numbers identifying the published items
have been posted to stock cards and bin tags
and are in use both in the Home Office and at
2.
in 88 complete published stock lists which were
in use in the various engineering, procurement,
Jobsite on Advance Material Estimates, bills of
material, and documents concerned with pro-
curement, warehousing, and issue of materials.
All items have been assigned a tentative
code symbol designating standard warehouse
stock, standard for authorized construction
only, or non-standard for future procurement.
These codes are being reviewed to simplify fu-
ture supply problems while permitting utilization
the progress of work at EPG; (2) to furnish
a guide for AEC, MATS, and MSTSin planning
transportation activities; and (3) to record and
document the complete Home Office and Jobsite effort pertaining to work performed by H&N
at the EPG.
In addition, to periodic reports, a number
Standardize equipment by make, mod-
el, engine, etc., as much as possible
under existing Government procurement regulations to keep spare parts
Emphasis was placed on the utilization of
AEC
and
other
Government
excess
which could meet the stated requirements.
items
The two basic sources of excess items were:
1.
AEC excess located by screening excess lists from other AEC Contractors
and through personal contact with the
Albuquerque, Oak Ridge, and Savannah River Operations Offices.
2.
Other Government excess located
through a careful review of excess lists
provided by:
REPORTS SECTION.
Office. The primary purposes of these reports
were (1) to keep AEC and HEN informed of
ficient, and economical equipment suitable to Jobsite conditions.
inventories at a minimum.
of existing stock.
The Reports Sections produced periodic reports covering activities at the EPG and Home
Acquire the most versatile, modern,ef-
(A)
(B)
General Services Administration
from all regions;
Interservice Material Utilization
Agency, formerly the Material
Redistribution Division of the
Navy.
AEC excess equipment having an original
of special reports and studies were edited and
finalized for the AEC, the Engineering Department, and the Blast Study Group. These studies
acquisition cost of $468,433 was purchased for
II, Section 1).
other Government excess sources with original
are listed under Engineering Design (Chapter
The responsibilities of indexing and maintaining a file of photos of Jobsite work were also
functions of the Reports Section. Besides their
use in various reports, these photos were used
by H&N Executives and Engineers for reference
study.
EQUIPMENT SECTION.
The Equipment Section expended considerable effort in anticipating as accurately as pos-
sible the equipment requirements for the entire
Operation and in planning for the arrival of
this equipment at Jobsite in time for required
usage. Equipment requirements were scheduled
by procurement quarters, with the bulk of the
purchases falling within the third and fourth
quarters of FY 1957 and the first and second
quarters of FY 1958.
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$107,341, reflecting a saving of $361,092. More-
over, equipment and materials obtained from
acquisition costs totaling $967,802 were purchased for $163,333, a saving of $804,469.
In addition to the excess sources, consider-
able quantities of equipment were purchased
from Navy stock under the letter of agreement
between the Navy and AEC, whereby AEC or
its Contractors may purchase directly from Navy
stocks at list prices. However, since a certain
amount of the equipment in Navy stock was
from three to six years old, the following method
of pricing was established: depreciation was computed according to the age of a piece of equipment and this amount of depreciation was deducted from the estimated replacement cost.
Using this method of pricing, equipment with
original acqusition costs totaling $1,021,000 was
purchased for $653,329, showing a saving of
$367,671.