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B-301561 1 (2004-06-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacytm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I GAO 7inAccountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 B-301561 June 14, 2004 Major Jeff Wood Chief, Financial Management Division Air Force Office of Scientific Research 4015 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22203 Subject: Interagency Agreement with the Department of Energy for Online Research and Education Information Service Dear Major Wood: This is in reply to your June 11, 2003, request for an opinion on whether the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) may use fiscal year 1999 funds to pay $131,000 due under an agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) to implement a governmentwide online research, education, and information service. Our review of this matter raised a number of factual questions about the circumstances of this transaction between AFOSR and DOE that were not addressed in your letter. It is not clear, for example, under what legal authority AFOSR and DOE engaged in this transaction, nor is it clear when DOE provided AFOSR the services requested. We contacted both your staff and DOE staff in an attempt to obtain necessary factual information, but none of the parties were able to supply the additional information needed to definitively address this situation. Accordingly, we are not issuing a formal decision because the lack of details would require us to substantially qualify our response. Instead, we offer a general discussion of the circumstances and issues raised by your letter, which we trust will assist AFOSR in resolving this matter. BACKGROUND According to documents you provided with your request, AFOSR signed an interagency agreement with DOE on September 25, 1998, to implement a governmentwide online research and education information service for colleges, universities, and other grantee organizations. According to the agreement, DOE, through a separate cooperative agreement with Federal Information Exchange, Inc. (FIE), had taken a leadership role in the development and implementation of an online information service known as FEDIX to make information about the government's research, development, and education programs readily available at no

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