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B-265682 1 (1996-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablnd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-265682 February 20, 1996 Bobby L. Cates Resource Protection P.O. Box 3417 Tampa, FL 33601-3417 Dear Mr. Cates: This is in response to your letter of July 28, 1995, appealing settlement No. Z-151685(92) denying your requested reimbursement of $691 collected by the United States Army from Allied Intermodal Forwarders, Inc., for loss/damage to a shipment of household goods of Richard Spears, which moved under GBL #SP-336,288. Allied picked up the shipment from nontemporary storage in Denver, Colorado, on July 1, 1992. At that time the shipment had been in storage for 11 years. When the shipment was delivered to Fayetteville, Pennsylvania, the member noted that several tools were missing. The claim was settled by the Army which setoff $691 from funds otherwise due Allied. When the household goods were picked up at the storage facility, the original inventory was not available. Allied's driver prepared a new inventory of the items tendered to it and the inventory was signed by the warehouseman. According to Allied the warehouseman indicated that there had been a partial delivery out of storage sometime during the 11-year period because the original storage shipment was reduced in size. You contend that the preparation of the new inventory was the only action available to the Allied driver and since delivery was made of all items tendered to Allied, there should be no liability for the missing items. We disagree. As the Army points out in its administrative report, when it became apparent that the original inventory was not at the warehouse, the driver should have contacted the agency to ascertain if it had a copy of the original inventory or 713215

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