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B-195566 1 (1980-03-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadicg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A I -* FILE: B-195566 DATE: March 17, 1980 4_TMATTER OF: The Dal Sentine I DIGEST:? 67 A CO -7g This Office is without authority to authorize payment of printing costs incurred outside provisions of 44 U.S.C. § 501 (1976) requiring that, with certain exceptions, all printing be done at the Government Printing Office. -721TO /30e The Daily Sentinel, Woodstock, Illinois, has filed a claim for $1,372.08 for printing the Lightning Flash, the unit newspaper of the Army 12th Special Forces Group'(Group), Arlington Heights, Illinois. This Office may not authorize payment because it would violate the statute requiring that all printing be done at the Government Printing Office (GPO). The record shows that on April 6, 1978, after miscon- struing a commitment of funds form as-authority to contract for the desired services, the editor of the Lightning Flash, who is also a Group Member, placed an order with the Daily Sentinel for publication of the Lightning Flash. The Daily Sentinel performed the printing services, delivering the newspapers to the Group on May 26. Upon submission of an invoice for payment, the Procurement Division (Division), Fort DL6 Sheridan, Illinois notified the Daily Sentinel that the procurement was unauthorized and that the Division lacked authority to formalize an unauthorized purchase or commitment. Further attempts by the Daily Sentinel to obtain payment proved fruitless. The Army has advised us that although it cannot ratify the unauthorized commitment, the Daily Sentinel provided the printing services in good faith and the Government benefited from those services. 13160O LA 4 ~ ~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL' DECISICN ) FTEUNITED STATES WASHING TON, DC.C 20548

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