Purchase Policies Branch, OC CWS

Source All the data in this chart, with the exception of the Goodyear Tire A Rubber Co. assembly contract, were taken from a study prepared by the Purchase Policies Branch, OC CWS, in 1945, entitled Analysis of Chemical Warfare Service Pricing Record World War II, p. 34. CWS 314.7 Educational Order Program File. This study makes no reference to the Goodyear assembly o>ntract, which was the first contract under the F.ducational Order Program. The data on this ntract were obtained in 1949 in a file of the Procurement Agency, Army Chemical Center. 

Source Data in this chart were obtained from Analysis of Chemical Warfare Service Pricing Rea>rd in World War II, p. 35, prepared in 1945 by the Purchase Policies Branch, OC CWS. 

A survey of the districts conducted by the branch in the fall of 1943 revealed an almost total lack of interest and initiative with regard to pricing functions. To rectify this situation General Ditto, Assistant Chief, CWS, for Materiel, wrote a letter in December 1943 to the commanding officers of the districts in which he emphasized that price analysis was primarily a district function. From then until the close of the war the procurement districts were more active in conducting pricing operations. The Purchase Policies Branch, OC CWS, continued to act in a staff capacity on all pricing matters. 

Analysis of CWS Pricing Record in World War II, p. 18. This 100-page mimeographed report was compiled by Purchase Policies Branch OC CWS in 1945. MS in Hist Off. 

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