FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTIONS Due 110796. POC Tim Boland (301)975-3608. The Procurement Functional Working Group is developing standard implementation conventions to be used by the Federal Government in transmitting electronic data using ANSI X12 Version 3050. A Federal Implementation Convention for ASC X12 transaction set 850 Purchase Order (Revision 1) is available for public comment. This document is available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/fededi/PFWG. 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 and t.boland@nist.gov. The public comment period closes November 7, 1996 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Tim Boland, EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Procurement Functional Workgroup, Computer Systems Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 820, Room 517, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301)975-3608.

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