Indian Health Service
                                                                                                                                        Rockville MD 20857

                                   AUG 11 1995
 

              TO:    Director, Office of Engineering Services - Region VI
                        Director, Office of Engineering Services - Region X

           FROM: Associate Director
                        Office of Information Resources Management

       SUBJECT: Delegation of Procurement Authority for the Acquisition of Federal Information
                         Processing Resources

AUTHORITY DELEGATED AND TO WHOM

Pursuant to the authority delegated to the Associate Director, Office of Information Resources Management
(OIRM), by the Director of Headquarters Operations, IHS, on July 19, 1994, I hereby delegate to the
Directors, Office of Engineering Services, Region VI and Region X the authority to acquire Federal
Information Processing (FIP) Resources necessary for completing architectural and engineering
projects for the Indian Health Service as follows:

(1) The Delegation of Procurement Authority, per requirement, is up to the Small Purchase Limit as
       defined by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and the Federal Information
       Resources Management Regulations (FIRMR).

      For FIP acquisitions from Federal Supply Schedules, the order limit is the maximum order limitation
      of the schedule or $250,000, whichever is less.

(2) For all other FIP resources requirements, authority must be obtained from the Associate Director,
      Office of Information Resources Management.

REDELEGATION

This authority may not be redelegated.

INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE

Only Information requirements of this delegation are to be administered by the Directors, OES, Regions
VI and X. The acquisition of necessary FJP resources approved by each of the Directors can only be
authorized by a contracting officer who has been appointed in accordance with Federal Acquisitions
Regulations (FAR), Subpart 1.6.

This delegation of authority is to be used in conjunction with established procedures published in the Indian
Health Manual, Part 5, Chapter 5, Section 12, "Automated Data Processing and Telecommunications
Contracting" (copy attached).

For FIP acquisitions that exceed the authority delegated herein, the Directors, OES, Regions VI and X must
continue to seek specific acquisition delegations in accordance with existing IHS, Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), Public Health Service (PHS) and General Services Administration (GSA)
Information Resources Management (IRM) policies.

With this authority comes the responsibility for the Directors, OES, Regions VI and X, to comply with the
applicable GSA policies, presented in the FIRMR, HHS policies, presented in the HHS IRM Manual and
supplemented by the DHHS IRM Circular series, and PHS IRM policies, presented in the PHS IRM Manual.

EFFECTIVE DATE

This delegation is effective upon date of signature.
 

                                          
                                         Richard M. Church
                                        Assistant Surgeon General