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B-196275 1 (1981-10-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjvu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .. j ogL R G . TH THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-196275 DATE: October 29, 1981 MATTER OF: Centennial Systems, Incorporated DIGEST: 1. Where the Government has received notice of a valid assignment, but thereafter erroneously pays assignor, it remains liable to assignee for the amount of the erroneous payment. 2. Although assignment did not comply with requirements of the Assignment of Claims Act, the record establishes that the Government was aware of, assented to and recognized the assignment of a contract. Therefore, the Government should pay money owed under contract to assignee. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requests our decision as to the propriety of paying Cen- tennial Systems, Incorporated's (Centennial), claim for $8,654, arising from the apparent assignment to the firm of the proceeds from two .THS purchase orders, Nos. FPH-78-29 and RO 11-79-79, under contract No. GS-005- 43360. In our view; HHS should pay Centennial's claim for $3,258 under purchase order FPH-78-29 and the $5,387 under purchase order RO 11-79-79. In fiscal year 1978, HHS contracted with LCS Corpora- tion (LCS) for the lease of word processing equipment for its New York regional office. In July of 1978, LCS sold the equipment to Centennial and assigned the remaining proceeds of its contract lease with HHS under purchase order No. FPH-78-29 to Centennial. jjyl Under this agreement, Centennial leased back all the purchased equipment to LCS, with the understanding 4 that this equipment would be subleased to the Govern- ment. The parties agreed that all proceeds due LCS under the LCS-Government leases would be assigned to F

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