FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT Contact EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Procurement Functional Workgroup, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Technology Bldg, Room B217, Gaithersburg, MD 20899; Stephen Nightengale, 301/975-3616. The Procurement Functional Workgroup is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3.5 (3050). Federal Implementation Conventions for ASC X12 transaction sets 840 (Request for Quotation), 843 (Response to Request for Quotation), 855 (Purchase Order Acknowledgment) and 865 (Purchase Order Change Acknowledgment/Request-Seller Initiated) are available for public comment. These documents are available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/dartg/edi/fededi.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/. The FTP login is anonymous and your E-Mail address should be entered as the password. Electronic comments are preferred and should be addressed to PFWG@snad.ncsl.nist.gov. The public comment period closes 10 Apr 95.

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