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For Federal Departments
New Information for all Materials Managers – CAD bulletin, December 2008 Click Here.
Federal departments should refer to the Treasury Board policy on Disposal of Surplus Movable Crown Assets.
All
federal personal computers (MS-DOS/Windows and MacIntosh) and
associated monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, modems, servers, hubs,
network cards, disk operating systems and related equipment which
become surplus to government requirements must be offered intact to the
Industry Canada Computers for Schools Program.
The configuration of incoming computers is carefully monitored and
recorded by CFS. Custodians of federal personal computers should ensure
that surplus computers are not cannibalized or otherwise rendered
unusable prior to transfer. The practice of removing hard drives,
random access memory (RAM) and other essential components from
computers before transferring them should only be done in those rare
situations where security requirements dictate it.
The data on the hard drives of all computers received at CFS
facilities are thoroughly erased and the disks reformatted. Custodians
with sensitive data may obtain RCMP-approved software from their local
CFS centre to erase data on hard drives prior to transfer. |
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