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B-230784 1 (1988-04-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnbs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U. The Comptroller General of the United States Washington. D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Navy Regional Finance Center -- Doubtful Claim File: B-230784 Date: April 25, 1988 DIGEST Under the claims settlement standards contained in 4 C.F.R. S 31.7, the burden is on the claimant to establish the liability of the United States and the claimant's right to payment. Hence, a supplier of goods ordered by the government must show that the goods were received by the government before its claim for payment may be allowed. DECISION This is in response to a request from the Navy Regional Finance Center (Navy), Washington, D.C., for an advance decision on a doubtful claim submitted by the Protectoseal Company, Chicago, Illinois (Protectoseal). The claim may not be allowed because the claimant has failed to submit documentation sufficient to justify payment. On April 26, 1984, the Navy issued purchase order number NOO129-84-F-0888 to Protectoseal for one Flammable Stowage Locker, Model 5517S at a cost of $226. The order was to be shipped prepaid to Naval Submarine Base New London, Groton, Connecticut. Protectoseal claims to have shipped two lockers under the order; however there is no documentation showing that the Navy placed a second order. Protectoseal's records indicate that one locker was shipped on May 2, 1984, under invoice number 12323T. Another locker was apparently shipped on August 3, 1984, under invoice number 16449T. The records indicate that a locker was received by the Navy on August 7, 1984, 4 days after Protectoseal claims to have made its second shipment. The proof of delivery lists invoice number 16449T (second invoice) as having been delivered on August 7, 1984. The Navy, however, apparently indicated on its records that invoice number 12323T (first

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