Veterans Administration's Plans To Noncompetitively Upgrade Its Austin, Texas, Data Processing Center

GAO was requested to review the Veterans Administration's (VA) plans to upgrade noncompetitively its Austin, Texas Data Processing Center (DPC), and the agency's management and use of its automated data processing (ADP) services. Based on its review, GAO concluded that the planned replacement of current equipment of the Austin DPC was not warranted because the VA requirements analysis understated the current system capacity and proposed no means of minimizing computer resource requirements, operational and procedural changes can achieve gains beyond system performance improvements already in effect, and interim solutions less costly than noncompetitive replacement can meet current VA data processing needs.