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Ny —_ in Red Tape {And Paper Blizzard

Administrators Cry for. Help, Must

Circulate 900 Invitations for Each Bid By EDWIN BEACHLER, Scripps-Howard Staft Writer

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“4 4 3 - WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 — The government has whipped up,

| another big blizzard of paper. t The latest one has fallen on Uncle Sam's defense program. It's made tough in buying everything from guns to scivvy shirts. 4 The cold evidence of red tape puting the chill on the nation’s! idefense program comes from an 4

sledding for military and civilian workers

4 5 4 3 ¢/ undisclosed military procurement Histation in the Midwest. 8 | © Harried administrators, snowed: & under a mountain of paper out there, are crying for help. They ¥ told investigators of the House & Government Operations SubcomX mittee that: q It took 37 million pieces of ! {paper to wrap up 10,000 contracts &!during the year ending June 30. %| More than 100,000 papers drift3 through the office each day. Each contract was caught in 3 an average swirl of 3700 papers. X 900 Copies Made 3 Before a contract was award-

ed, 900 copies of each invitation Wo for public bids had to be circulated. Not to mention. the big paper flurry by the Commerce | Department in passing the word &|along to thousands. of field offices and Chambers of Commerce. 3 Then to top it off, an average of 40 copies of each contract went $lto various government agencies. 3 Procurement administrators iasked the House Subcommittee's staff, investigating waste and extravagance, to: ‘ “Please help us cut out some of {the paper work.” What's more, this paper opera- Committee. Rtion fis believed to be typical For example, it was pointed out rater than the exception. House that military procurement of[ag h found Zllap on ficials freguently asked for bids! ditions: at three military ins on highly technical equipment.

{lations they visited. Although the equipment may

r Report ‘Astounding’ B e Hable t : Congressmen, serving on the N3Ve been available from only

'subcommittee under the chairman- three or four plants in the entire 8 ship of Rep. Porter Hardy (D. country, the bids were advertised {Va.) were “astounded” by the re- through the thousands of regular

{ port. Most of the paper blizzard can channels.

} be traced to the horse-and- -buggy | Unnecessary Operation 4 method of government operations,! -= {| pointed on the recent. Hoover This meant that many people {Commission report. who couldn't possibly bid on it re-| | But something new has ‘been ‘ceived the announcements any-| added. That's the flurry of 900 way. But -every government, || copies inviting public bids on each office that got one had to handle

contract. Ironically, this came as-an out- the paper, toss it in the waste

|growth of last year’s “5-percenter”| {basket or- file it somewhere—thus, {investigation which disclosed how ! multiplying the work many times. | 4 (certain Washington operators col- «ppey're (military installations) q lected 5 per cent from clients for| lso bogged down in paper, it's | “landing” government contracts. pingering their work,” Ralph| !In most cases the operators mere- rn q0y assistant counsel, told the! {ly guided businessmen through g.ncommittee. |governaent red tape. | The investigators concluded Sensitive to Probe But the administration is still|spent just to get

eH, Monsees, staff director, noted in his report to the House Sub-

Falscd Stout the S-pelceners ac-| items. =

{have been taken, in the form of $100 million worth of tanks, | 4 more records all along the line, 4 Now the pendulum may have/to that because of swung too far the other way, Carl ministrative cost.”

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