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B-290900 1 (2003-03-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacyge0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I G A 0 Comptroller General - -Accountability * Integrity * Reliability of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Bureau of Land Management: Payment of Printing Costs by the Milwaukee Field Office File: B-290900 Date: March 18, 2003 DIGEST In furtherance of its role in a statutory lighthouse preservation program, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) participates in the Michigan Lighthouse Project (Project) under a cooperative arrangement with other federal, state, and nonprofit entities. One of the missions of the Project is to educate the public and other interested entities about the lighthouse program. Project members determined that one way to accomplish this goal was to publish a brochure detailing the program and containing photographs of the relevant Michigan lighthouse properties. BLM agreed to pay part of the cost of developing and printing the brochure. BLM may use its appropriated funds to pay its share of the cost of producing the brochure since disseminating the information, while benefiting all the Project members in furthering Project goals, also supports BLM in meeting its responsibilities regarding nineteen Michigan lighthouses in the lighthouse preservation program. Under the circumstances presented here, the general requirement of 44 U.S.C. § 501 that all government printing be done through the Government Printing Office does not apply because BLM did not procure the services and the printing was not done for the government under 44 U.S.C. § 501, but for the project. DECISION A certifying officer of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Department of the Interior, has requested an advance decision under 31 U.S.C. § 3529 regarding the payment of an invoice submitted by a printing company to BLM for part of the costs associated with the printing of a brochure about the Michigan Lighthouse Project (Project). For the following reasons, BLM may use appropriated funds to pay its share of the brochure production costs in the furtherance of its role in the lighthouse preservation program.

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