OFFICE MANAGEMENT SECTION 



PROCUREMENT AND PURCHASING 



Due to the continued expansion and the resultant need of 

 equipment and office materiel, procurement and purchasing in this fiscal 

 period was active and vddespread. Among the multifarious activities 

 carried out by this section, there was basically the continuing concern 

 of demand and supply whether it was space requirements, duplicating, 

 uniforms, licences of many and varied sorts, stationery and equipment, 

 services such as the care of office machines, transportation, hotel 

 accommodation, etc. Back of this basic demand were the many-facetted 

 details of investigation and procurement, all of which contributed to 

 the functional cohesion of this section. 



As has been related in the past, the established routine calls 

 for requisitions to be channelled to the Purchase and Supply Section for 

 processing, in which the items listed are checked to ascertain if they 

 can be supplied from stock, or if they must be ordered, either by direct 

 purchase order or from the Queen's Printer or Public Works Department. 

 From time to time new items in office equipment and supplies 

 are brought to this section's attention and are investigated. Divisional 

 and district offices are kept informed of new items of equipment and 

 services and their suppliers where it is deemed warranted, and, 

 whenever possible, descriptive sheets and pamphlets are sent the afore- 

 mentioned offices. 



The number of incoming requisitions received was 7,079, and 

 each of these were examined to see what must be ordered, either by 

 direct purchase order, by requisitions to the Queen's Printer for 

 stationery and printing, by requisitions to Public Works Department, 

 and, in certain instances, by memoranda, and what can be supplied from 

 stock. Many and varied details enter into the consideration and 

 finalization of each requisition, and may involve telephone queries. 



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