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B-197423 1 (1980-01-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactys0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U I G40 5§9S3 United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Office of General Counsel In Reply Referto: 8-197423 JAN 2 9 1980 q.(l.6cD D. B. James, Sr., President James Travel Center 1760 14th Street P.O. Box 2160 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Dear Mr. Jame We refer President of Secretary of 'I P 44 1 r~rj I!)' 'a s. 7 to your letter of November 30, 1979, to the the United States which was referred L:- the Transportation who sent it here for reply.. You ask why travel .,agents are prohibited from providing travel services for official Government travel under section 52.3 of Title 4 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CrR) and you assert that this regulation discriminates against small businessmen like yourself. You state that you can provide the required services to the Goverhment and fail to under- stand why you are prohibited from doing so. There are a variety of reasons for the prohibition against the .use of travel agents for procuring Government travel. One2'reason'is our concern that if travel agents handled'Government travc.', it would cost more than dealing directly with the.carrier. We also are concerned that the public and the Government would pay higher air fares, if the airlines must pay commissions on Government trqvel pro- cured by ttvel-agents. Currently, ag'ycies deal diretly with the airlines; the use of travel aguhts most likely would require'costly administrative changes in the manner of processing and paying for Government travel and would create problems 'concerning the manner of selecting a travel agent and in dealing with a large number of travel agents interested in the opportunity to provide services to the Government. We also do not agree that the Government travel clerks can be readily absorbed into the private sector. We have received several letters frota travel clerks ;ho fear they will lose their jobs if we lift our prohibition. Also, trav.l agents are unfamiliar with statutes and regulations concerning 'yr. nif, fl~y*-9s* .rwrnW~fl rt~ - - I . U -........~re.. -. t..- ~ w.r,~ --I - - r, .¶* tin I t p V I I Ii Jill , I . I

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