70-FEDERAL IMPLEMENTATION CONVENTION FOR ASC X12 4010 TRANSACTION; 850 PURCHASE ORDER 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 4010. A Federal Implementation Convention for ASC X12 transaction set 850 Purchase Order is available for public comment. This document is available in electronic format from the World Wide Web (WWW) at http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/fededi/cbd.html and from anonymous FTP at snad.ncsl.nist.gov, directory 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 fedprocurefwg@edi.oti.disa.mil and t.boland@nist.gov. The public comment period closes February 28, 1998 (or 30 days from the date of publishing). Contact Tim Boland, EDI Standards Management Program, Attn: Federal Procurement Functional Workgroup, Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST-North, Building 820, Room 517 Gaithersburg, MD 20899 Tel: (301) 975-3608

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