41 C.F.R. § 101-30.703 Program objectives.
Title 41 - Public Contracts and Property Management
The objective of the item reduction program is to reduce the varieties and sizes of similar items in the Government supply system by: (a) Implementing a coordinated item reduction process among supply managers of using activities; (b) Standardizing items of supply used by the Government; (c) Ensuring that all participants in item reduction studies give priority to controlling and completing item reduction studies; (d) Promptly recording decisions in the Federal catalog system data base; and (e) Phasing out of the Government supply system those items identified in item reduction studies as not authorized for procurement to reduce cataloging, supply management, and warehousing costs; then following through to eliminate the items from agency catalog systems. [43 FR 4999, Feb. 7, 1978, as amended at 46 FR 35646, July 10, 1981]
Title 41: Public Contracts and Property Management
PART 101–30—FEDERAL CATALOG SYSTEM
Subpart 101–30.7—Item Reduction Program
§ 101-30.703 Program objectives.