CFR > Title 41 - Public Contracts and Property Management > SUBTITLE C—Federal Property Management Regulations System > CHAPTER 101—FEDERAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (parts 101-1 to 101-49) > SUBCHAPTER E—SUPPLY AND PROCUREMENT (parts 101-22 to 101-33) > PART 101-30—FEDERAL CATALOG SYSTEM > SUBPART 101-30.7—Item Reduction Program (§101-30.700 to §101-30.705) > 101-30.703—Program objectives.

101-30.703—Program objectives.

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.

Code of Federal Regulations

[43 FR 4999, Feb. 7, 1978, as amended at 46 FR 35646, July 10, 1981]