camp, but also to establish large quantities of supplies, equipment, and small tools to be available at the Jobsite as personnel arrived to use them, The services of newly hired superintendents and other key personnel whose Jobsite duties placed them in material requisitioning capacity were utilized by the Procurement Department in helping estimate basic material requirements for their respective departments while awaiting se- curity clearances and overseas transportation, This device served the dual purpose of facilitating the preparation of these detailed estimates while at the same time acquainting these men with such phases of the work as security regulations permitted. A record was kept of the quantities of various types of items order- ed and accumulated requirements were later deducted from the bills of materials taken off the drawings as they were completed. Quantities of materials and equipment were thus stockpiled in advance of actual need for use in construction of camps, power houses, underground utilities, etc,, at the Project site, and this accomplishment proved extremely valuable in getting the Jobsite operations underway. The first purchases, in volume, of construction items such as cement, lumber, reinforcing steel, and other items necessary to support a construction project of this magnitude were initiated in May 1949 amd reached a peak in July of the same year. This trend in procurement activity is reflected in the charts shown in Figures 13.2-1, 13.2-2, and 13.2-3. During this same period, arrangements were made for the inter-agency transfers (involving various Federal Government agencies) of a substantial quantity of heavy earth-moving and construction equipment. During the early part of this period in construction activity, and more particularly immediately prior to the close of fiscal year of 1949, procurement progress suffered a delay occasioned by fund limitations. Because the allocated funds for this fiscal period were not sufficient to cover all desired cammitments, it was necessary to suspend certain important purchase awards such as on aluminum buildings until the main bulk of the funds became available. By the close of the second quarter of 1949, all sewer pipe and cast iron soil pipe had been ordered for the facilities at Camp Parry. Invitations to bid Had been placed for pipe fittings and plumbing shop equip ment, supplies, and small tools; however, purchase orders were not actually awarded until July. Alumimm pipe and fittings were also on sus- pended order. The first sixteen alumimum buildings for permanent hous- ing‘nad been bid and awarded and expediting action was under way to secure the aluminum stock for the fabricator by July 5, 1949. Repair parts for renovating cold storage boxes already at the Jobsite had been secured and larger capacity units were in the process of design, Arrangements had been made for obtaining fresh and frozen food from the General Supply Depot of the U. S. Navy, and July subsistence requirements had been ship- ped by June 15, 1949. All designs for the over-all electrical distribution system were completed and bids had been advertised on the equipment and fittings, The first shipment of power poles was made June 10, 1949, but the procurement of fixtures and hardware for them was delayed through lack 13-8