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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF13-002
This folder contains a book with the heading "Log of Messages and Actions" that details the activities of Federal Supply Service (FSS) staff during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It also includes operating instructions for the FSS Emergency Control Center, and statistics about provision requests that were processed during the period.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF13-001
This folder contains material pertaining to the transfer of procurement responsibility for some supplies from the Department of Defense to the General Services Administration.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF02-003
This folder contains the final report of the General Services Administration (GSA) Small Business Task Force. The task force was created by Boutin in March 1962 to study the causes for a recent decline in GSA procurement from small businesses and to make recommendations on how to remedy the situation. It was chaired by the Assistant Commissioner for Procurement Policy in the Federal Supply Service.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF02-002
This folder contains memoranda and correspondence pertaining to arrangements for the Federal Supply Service to obtain space at Sembach Air Force Base for a customer service center to help military units in Europe with government procurement activities.
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United States General Services Administration Records
USGSA-MF02-001
This folder contains memoranda and correspondence outlining General Services Administration (GSA) polices for assisting areas of high unemployment ("labor surplus areas") by prioritizing them for government contracts and procurement. The majority of the file consists of lists of furniture manufacturers in such areas by state.
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Bernard L. Boutin Personal Papers
BLBPP-MF14-005
This folder contains correspondence and memoranda pertaining to the Federal Supply Service (FSS), a division of the General Services Administration. It also includes an analysis of FSS buying, staffing, and workload in certain regions of the country.
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USGSA
Records 1959-1964 (bulk 1961-1963). Microfilm copies of records of Administrator Bernard L. Boutin, and the subdivisions of the agency including the Defense Materials Service, Federal Supply Service, National Archives and Records Service, Public Building Service, Transportation and Communications Service, and Utilization and Disposal Service. Hard copy includes correspondence, a prospectus for alterations to the White House, and the Public Building Service's report on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.