Guidelines For Benchmarking Adp Systems In The Competitive Procurement Environment PDF Download

Excerpt from Guideline for Managing Multivendor Plug-Compatible Adp Systems: Category, Adp Operations; Subcategory, Management of Multivendor Adp Systems The Federal Information Processing Standards Publication Series of the National Bureau of Standards is the official publication relating to standards and guidelines adopted and promulgated under the provisions of Public Law 89 - 306 (brooks Bill) and under Part 6 of Title 15, Code of Federal Regulations. These legislative and executive mandates have given the Secretary of Commerce important responsibilities for improving the utilization and management of computers and automatic data processing systems in the Federal Government. To carry out the Secretary's responsibilities, the nbs, through its Institute for Computer Sciences and Technology, provides leadership, technical guidance, and coordina tion of government efforts in the development of technical guidelines and standards in these areas. To an increasing extent, Federal adp systems are being configured with components obtained from multiple sources and adp managers are being provided with services from multiple suppliers. This multivendor environment is a product of procurement policies and contracting practices developed and implemented by gsa. These innovative methods of doing business have had a significant impact on the data processing community by helping to establish a new segment of the adp industry namely the independent suppliers. This has led to both increased competition in the marketplace and substantial procurement savings by the Federal Government. With the advent of the multivendor environment, the Federal adp manager is presented with an entirely new concept in installation management. This document provides guidance for this new management approach with the objective of accomplishing the planning as well as economic acquisition and operation of independently supplied adp components from multivendor sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.