Provide managers with the ability to authorize employees who have a bona fide need to buy smalldollar items directly using a purchase card. By May 1994, the heads of all federal agencies should ensure that managers are able to make small purchases directly through the IMPAC program. In addition, they should: -- direct their respective comptrollers and procurement executives to adopt internal procedures to govern the use of IMPAC; such procedures should provide for dealing with fraud or misuse swiftly and sternly and provide assurance that small and small disadvantaged businesses and mandated sources of supply are accorded all statutorily required considerations in use of the purchase card; -- ensure that anyone authorized to use the purchase card has appropriate training in simplified acquisition procedures and in small business and small disadvantaged business programs; -- encourage vendors who do not accept IMPAC to make arrangements to do so and provide information on how they can register for the program; -- direct contracting activities to review IMPAC purchases to identify highdollar aggregate purchases from individual merchants so they can negotiate discounts with these vendors; -- limit internal procedures to those necessary to ensure the maximum effective use of IMPAC; and -- reduce the number and use of imprest funds in favor of IMPAC to save money through improved cash management.
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