All eBuy users have the ability to enter excess items into the Excess Item Catalog (EIC) located in the eBuy purchasing system. The purpose of EIC is to promote the redistribution of excess assets and to defer the cost of buying new equipment. EIC is a form of reallocation in which items no longer in use by the client are leveraged by a new client and is, therefore, applicable to investment recovery. However, EIC is not applicable to the investment recovery plan (as developed in Section 2-12, Develop Preliminary Investment Recovery Plan) because the items are catalogued and not immediately used (and may never be used). Only items that are known to fulfill the future need of another client can be addressed by the investment recovery plan. Obsolete items can be put on EIC by the client, but there is always the risk that these items will not be leveraged in the future. EIC is available through eBuy at http://ebuy2.usps.gov/ (link is for internal Postal use only).
