The Evaluation of Alternative Naval Regional Procurement Office Configurations.
Abstract
The study evaluates the effect of substantially altering the operation of a Naval Regional Procurement Office. Of prime concern is the impact on the annual cost to the Navy as a whole if the various Naval activities, presently supported by a NRPO, were required to carry out some or all of the procurements currently performed for them. Three alternative configurations are considered and their costs compared to the present operation. The three configurations are: (1) Granting of unlimited purchase authority to all of the activities, (2) Granting to all activities a purchase authority of $100,000, and (3( Granting to all activities a purchase authority of $10,000. For this study, the actual purchasing services performed at the NRPO in Los Angeles during fiscal 73 have been used. A queueing/scheduling model was utilized which allows to estimate for each alternative the average requisition processing time as a function of the buyer/negotiator staff level. (Modified author abstract)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1974
- Accession Number
- AD0786313
Entities
People
- M. A. Crane
- R. C. Morey
- R. D. Shapiro