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Regaining Control Through Centralized Action
Pages 93-96

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... Thomas D Conrad is former deputy assistant secretary, information systems management, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
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... I realized there was a proliferation of all kinds of microcomputers in the Air Force. In fact, many were not really business computers at all; they were more like home computers, but they were being used in critical areas of our national defense.
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... We received 32 proposals, a record for the Air Force Computer Acquisition Center. Of those 32 proposals, we eliminated 17 that were deemed unsuitable.
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... In October 1983 we awarded the contract to Zenith Data Systems for their Z100 base systems at a cost substantially below what was available in the market or through GSA (probably close to a 55 percent discount on the retail pricer. In my estimation this "exercise" saved the Air Force and therefore taxpayers some $36 million.
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