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B-198198.2 1 (1981-02-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjyr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-198198.2 February 18, 1981 The Honorable Paul N. McClosky, Jr. House of Representatives Dear Mr. McClosky: We refer to your additional correspondence concerning a contract dispute between your constituent, Microform Data Systems, Inc., and the Government Printing Office (GPO). On July 18, 1980, in response to your initial corre- spondence requesting an opinion as to the authority of the Public Printer to redelegate the resolution of the Microform dispute to a contract appeals board within the executive branch, we advised you of our belief that the Public Printer was bound by the decision of the GPO Board of Contract Appeals which dismissed Microform's complaint for lack of jurisdiction. We stated that we did not believe an aggrieved contractor is legally entitled to 'shop' for an administrative forum once it receives an administrative ruling from a board empowered to act on 'behalf' of the Federal Government with which it disagrees. Your most recent letter first requests our opinion of Microform's suggestion that administrative due process was not satisfied by the composition and procedures of the GPO Board in this case. Microform argues that the Public Print- er's initial delegation of the contract dispute to the GPO Board was so improvident as to warrant convocation of a new board to rehear the Microform dispute. Microform's conclu- sions rest for the most part on the provisions of the Con- tract Disputes Act, 41 U.S.C. § 601 et seq. (Supp. III 1979). Microform, while conceding that the Act is not appli- cable to legislative branch agencies, nonetheless submits that the Act establishes a standard for the legislative branch against which administrative due process is to be measured. Secondly, you request our opinion on the Public Printer's ability to delegate his decision-making authority in future contract dispute matters to an established board of contract appeals in the executive branch. With regard to the first matter, Microform asserts that the GPO Board was required to satisfy a Contract Disputes 0 /6 44-

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