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B-205868 1 (1982-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkkg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: W tS y1 01 DECISION FILE: B-205868 THE CE3MpRTRCLI.R UIUNIERAL OF THU UNITED ETAT1US WASH I NGTON, 0.0, 090048 DATE: June 14, 1982 MATTER OP VA Centralized Accountimj Local Management System DIGEST: If Veterans Administration wishes to institute procedure whereby VA Centralized Payment Ceiter may pay invoices which have been forwarded from initiating facility without proper administra- tive certifications, proper alternate control procedures must be implemented in its fuill Cen- tralized Accounting Local Management system. Recornended control procedures include limita- tions on type of contractor and number of dol- lars involved, testing of procedurev before agency-wide implementation, and periodic review of system, The Assistant Deputy Aministrator for Budget and Finance of the Veterans Administration (VA) has asked whether the VA Centralized Pay- ment Center way pay invoices which have been forwarded from the in- itiating facility without the required administrative certifications that goods or services have been received, subject to later audit and verification of the invoices. The General Accounting Office has, in .the past, approved similar fast pay procedures where they were nec- essary to take advantage of prompt paympnt discount opportunities and where adequate alternate internal controls were present to assure that the ingency received what it pid for in proper amount End condi- tion. While in this case the sutission does not state that the expedited procedures are necessary to obtain a prompt payment discount, if the VA can demonntrate that stgnificant ravings would result, even though no discount was available, we would not object to adoption of ths fast payment procedures, provided that adequate alternate Anternal controln were also instituted, According to the submission, approximately one-quarter of the VA's facilities currently participate in the agency's Centralized Accounting Local Management (CALM) system, whereby all payment docu- mentation is mailed to the VA Centralized Payment Office in Austin, Texas, for audit and payment processing. It is expected that soon all VA facilities will nse this system. Under the CA111 system, there are instances in which a purchase order is written for a con- tinuing service, and payment i made upon receipt of a certified in- voice (i.e., no .eceiving report is processed). The VA requires that these invoices te sioned by an authorizing official in the particular using service or unit at the initiating facility indicating that the service for irnich the bill is issued hac been satisfactorily performed. //91/

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