EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES--One-Stop Shopping

To: "DC - All District Chiefs"<distribution>,
        "B  - Branch Chiefs and Offices"<distribution>
cc: "AO - All Administrative Officers"<distribution>,
        "A  - Division Chief and Staff"<distribution>,
        "CD - All Data Chiefs"<distribution>,
        "William G Shope Jr., Chief, Br. of Oper. Support, Reston, VA "<wgshope>,
        "Karen T Ray, Contractor, Stennis Space Center, MS "<ktray>,
        "  WRD Archive File, Reston, VA "<wrd-archive>
From: "Catherine L Hill, ACH/Operations, Reston, VA "<clhill>
Subject: EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES--One-Stop Shopping
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 13:28:58 -0500
Sender: "Carole Nethaway, Secretary (OA), Reston, VA "<ccnethaw>

     
In Reply Refer To:
Mail Stop 405

                                 MEMORANDUM

                                                    April 3, 1998

To:      District Chiefs
         Branch Chiefs
         
From:    Catherine L. Hill
         Assistant Chief Hydrologist for Operations
 
Subject: EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES--One-Stop Shopping
 
The Water Resources Division announces the availability of One-Stop
Shopping, a web-based, on-line catalog ordering system.  Products and 
services from four U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) warehouse sources will
appear to the user as a single on-line catalog.  The four warehouse 
sources include:
 
         Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP)
         Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility (HIF)
         National Water Quality Laboratory (NWQL)
         Quality of Water Service Unit (QWSU)
        
The one-stop ordering system gives a description of each product and 
service, its price, availability, and a graphic image or photograph.  The 
system is user-friendly, but also provides on-line help and a "visual 
tour" to assist users in making their "shopping experience" pleasant and 
successful.  The program is best viewed using Netscape, Internet
Explorer, or any HTML 3.0 compatible browser.  The Mosaic browser is not 
supported for access to the one-stop ordering system.
 
This system will not replace existing procurement processes currently 
in use.  It provides an additional resource to access, browse, or 
purchase USGS products and services from an up-to-date, on-line catalog. 
Any employee with a USGS user id has full system access capability.  To 
order HIF products, the purchaser is required to be a registered HIF-CSS 
II user.

Employees are cautioned to adhere to their local office's procurement
limits and policies.  To assist in monitoring each employee's 
procurement activities, the system provides a copy of each order to the 
user's Adminstrative Officer.  It also provides the capability of sending 
a copy of each order to additional email addresses.

Purchasing products from more than one warehouse source is simplified 
with one order form.  Each warehouse source remains responsible for 
servicing its own orders.  Questions on products, delivery, payment, 
returns, cancellations, and customer support should be addressed to the 
appropriate person listed under "Contacts" in the "Help" section of the 
software.  For assistance using the one-stop ordering system, please 
contact Brenda Burke of the HIF, at 800-382-0634, ext. 3924.
  
The web site address for the one-stop ordering system is:
  
                       http://1stop.usgs.gov
  
or, you may access the one-stop ordering system through links from the
FISP.HIF, NWQL, or QWSU.

Email cc:  Administrative Officers
           WRD Senior Staff
           Data Chiefs
           wgshope
           ktray
           wrd-archive           

Hardcopy:  WRD General Files, MS 402
           Operations, MS 405
           Chron, MS 405
           Chief, BOS, MS 405