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B-188219 1 (1978-01-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: >2 ii I rg * I I. * I 'I ----I 1 -. :1 I - Li DmCI.ION FILE: 3-183219 ', THU COMPTROLLER GENERAL OP T1lE UNITWA STATEms. WASHINOTON. 0.C. 20548 4 Nitr9 EATE: January 19, 1978 MATTER OF: Georgia Highuay Expresa, Inc. DIGEWT: The Government is entitled to Ct60 lovWst'published tariff rats 4pplicabole to its shipments, and agents of the Cevernment are not authorized to contract for higher rates for *isilar servici Georgia-Uighway fEpress, inc. (CUE), in its letter of Januay' 5, 1977, requests a review of the deduction action ef $120 taken bylthe Goneral Services )Aufiitration (GSA), and of 7SAs disallowance of caim for additional transportation chargcs of $205.80. reniew of GSA's settlemcnt actiun is being undm by this (tfice underithe provisions of 49 U.S.C. sec. 66(b) (Supp. V, 1975), and 4 C.F.R. see. 53.3 (1977). thUder Government Bill of Lading (GBL) No. R-1542786, dated Auguast 28, 1973, GHE transported a shipment described on the GDL s.CABLE, ELECTRIC, COPPER, NOI, OI REELS, weighing 23,095 pounds, from Fairelild Air Force Base, Washington, to MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. GEE billed and was paid $1,41J.20 bn Army Flianca Caniter voucher No. 390500, dated December 14, 1973. GRE's carlges were based ca the truckload (TL) provisions if Item 61160, National Motor reight Classification (NMFC)-A-13- and Item 616, Rocky Mountain Motor Tariff Bureau Tariff (RMB) 5L1 (21-C), UW-ICC 197, whrich subjecteu the shipment to a 24,000-pound minimsm weight at the applicable claea 45 TL rate of $5.93 per hundredweight. In t'.&;adit 'by GSA of the charges-paid on GBL No. U-1572786, a noticeoatd vercharge, dated August 22, 1975, for $120.was isAued to GE. GSA bused.its chaires on the 24,000-pound T minimum weight pioiided in Itea-6116Cr of NMFCA-13 and on the class 40 TL rate of,$5 '43 jer hundredveight derived from(Items 1600 and 1650 or RmB Quotation 19-4. By letter dated January 29, 197G, the carrier declined to refund the $120 and in Junt 1976, the Army inance Center deducted this amount from monies otherwise due GHE. In November 1!F75, GE 'issued 'its supplemental bill or claim for additional transportation charges of $205.80. The additional charges also were based on the provisions of Item 61160 of NMFC A-13 - 1- N - - - F- ~i. * .9

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