INTERIM FACNET CERTIFICATION FOR RPSO BONN POC Lisa Million, Deputy Director, RPSO, tel. 49-228-3391. Regional Procurement Support Office, American Embassy, Bonn, Germany, PSC 117, Box 185, APO AE 09080. On July 29, 1996, the Procurement Executive of the U.S. Department of State certified the Regional Procurement Support Computer Network (FACNET) compliance, pursuant to Section 30A(a)(1) of the Office of the Federal Procurement Policy Act as added by Section 9001 of the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994, as implemented in FAR 4.505-1. No FACNET class exemptions have been made by the head of the contracting activity. An approved FACNET/EDI is being used. The structure and syntax required by ANSI X.12 are being met. Implementation conventions have been compliance-tested by the Compliance Test Facility, Columbus, OH. RPSO Bonn will use its FACNET/EDI capability to accomplish 50% of total eligible purchases between $2,500 and $100,000 from trading partners located in the U.S. unless the contracting officer determines that it is not practicable or cost effective, or the purchase falls within a class of purchases which the head of the contracting activity may determine is not cost effective or practicable via FACNET, or notice is not required pursuant to FAR Subpart 5.2. Commencing July 29, 1996, all responses to solicitations issued by RPSO Bonn through FACNET must be submitted through FACNET, unless otherwise authorized.

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