Palantir purchase orders by California state and local governments
| Submitted | Jan. 20, 2017 |
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From: Ansel Halliburton
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the California Public Records Act (California Government Code §§ 6250), I hereby request the following records:
Copies of all purchase orders received by the Department of General Services in connection with the State of California's Multiple Award Schedule contract with Palantir Technologies, contract no. 3-10-70-2793A.
Per the contract, copies of all purchase orders are to be submitted to:
Department of General Services
Procurement Division, Data Management Unit PO Box 989052, MS #2-203
West Sacramento, CA 95798-9052
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ansel Halliburton
From: Nazar, Shane@DGS
Good morning Ansel,
On behalf of the Department of General Services, Procurement Division, and pursuant to the provisions of the Public Records Act, we are acknowledging receipt of your request. We understand your request to be for the Copies of all purchase orders received by the Department of General Services in connection with the State of California's Multiple Award Schedule contract with Palantir Technologies, contract #3-10-70-2793A. If our understanding of your request is not correct, please notify us immediately.
We will commence the search for responsive records ASAP; you will receive a written response within 10 calendar days. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Thank you,
Shane H Nazar … (DGS-PD-DRU) • (916) 375-4350 • Shane.Nazar@dgs.ca.gov<mailto:Shane.Nazar@dgs.ca.gov>
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From: Nazar, Shane@DGS
Good morning Ansel
I am responding on behalf of the Department of General Services (PD), Procurement Division (PD), pursuant to the provisions of the Public Records Act (Government Code Section 6250 et seq…). Your request dated January 20, 2017 was received in our office on January 20, 2017.
We understand your request to be for the copies of all purchase orders received by the Department of General Services in connection with the State of California's Multiple Award Schedule contract with Palantir Technologies, contract #3-10-70-2793A. According to DGS-PD staff we have no records to provide to your request, Our CMAS-SME informed us that the agencies do not send copies of their purchase orders issued against a CMAS to DGS/PD; therefore, you should contact the individual ordering agencies for copies of their purchase orders.
This completes our response to your request. If you have any questions, please contact us.
Thank you,
Shane H Nazar … (DGS-PD-DRU) • (916) 375-4350 • Shane.Nazar@dgs.ca.gov<mailto:Shane.Nazar@dgs.ca.gov>
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From: Ansel Halliburton
Mr. Nazar, thank you for looking into this, and for your response.
The CMAS contract states that ordering agencies "are required to send a copy of each CMAS purchase order" to DGS/PD Data Management Unit. I am including a verbatim excerpt from page 4 of the CMAS contract below. Would you please check back with your CMAS-SME on this? The purpose of this request was to identify the ordering agencies, and according to the contract, DGS/PD should have this information. If there have been no orders then I would expect there to be no responsive records, but the apparently-erroneous statement from the CMAS-SME raises concerns that the search may not have been done properly or at all.
Thanks again.
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2. Purchase Orders
State and Local Government agencies are required to send a copy of each CMAS purchase order to:
Department of General Services
Procurement Division, Data Management Unit
PO Box 989052, MS #2-203
West Sacramento, CA 95798-9052
(or via Interagency Mail Service #Z-1)
The agency is required to complete and distribute the order form. For services, the agency shall modify the information contained on the order to include the service period (start and end date), and the monthly cost (or other intermittent cost), and any other information pertinent to the services being provided. The cost for each line item should be included in the order, not just system totals.
The contractor must immediately reject orders that are not accurate. Discrepancies are to be negotiated and incorporated into the order prior to the products and services being delivered.
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From: Nazar, Shane@DGS
Hello Ansel,
I have made more enquiry with DGS-CMAS and attached MS-Word file is further evidence of no records and the following pragraph is the response I have received from Rhonda Smith, Program Manager.
"CMAS does not have any records in response to this request. Quarterly Reports for this CMAS do not reflect any sales to State or Local Agencies.
The language in the CMAS Ordering Instructions is outdated. State and Local Government agencies are no longer required to submit a copy of CMAS purchase orders. CMAS is in the process of updating our Ordering Instructions to reflect this change."
If you have further questions, please feel free to contact us.
Thank you,
Shane H Nazar … (DGS-PD-DRU) ( (916) 375-4350 ((Shane.Nazar@dgs.ca.gov
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