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<p><strong>OFFICE OF REFERENCE MATERIALS (640)</strong>: Provides all of the business, administrative, service, product and technical support for the NIST Standard Reference Material (SRM) Program. It sells NIST SRM products to customers worldwide and prepares and distributes marketing material and information about NIST measurement services and products to our stakeholders.&nbsp; ORM operates and maintains the business information systems to support customer, financial, inventory, project tracking, and sales functions related to the SRM program.&nbsp; The office also provides business, sales, records of administrative expenses for the NIST SRM program, and customer information to NIST technical divisions to facilitate needs assessment for NIST measurement services and products.&nbsp; &nbsp;The office provides information to auditors upon request and is responsible for developing an annual budget for submission to the Budget Division.&nbsp; &nbsp;ORM maintains a material processing, packaging, and storage facility in support of the development and distribution of NIST Standard Reference Materials and strives to maintain state-of-the-art capabilities in these areas.&nbsp;</p>
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