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B-184801 1 (1975-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiyq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL _DECISION • OF THE UNITED STATES WNA SH ING T 0N 0. C. 2054 8 oqqq.33 FILE: B-184801 DATE: December 16, 1975 MATTER OF: Arizona Cable T.V., Inc. DIGEST: Claimant may not be paid expenses allegedly incurred in preparing to construct cable television at Job Corps Center, because Center Director lacked contracting authority, and because there is no evidence of express or implied ratifi- cation by an authorized contracting official of the Govern- ment. An authorized certifying officer of the Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, has requested our decision upon a claim for services by Arizona Cable T.V., Inc., in the amount of $1,200. The record shows that in 1971, Arizona Cable T.V. agreed to install a cable television system in the Heber-Overgaard, Arizona community if 200 subscribers were obtained in advance. A local committee of private citizens, formed to obtain the subscriptions, inquired of the Director of the Heber Civilian Conservation Center whether the Center would participate in the system. The Center Director advised the local committee by letter: Permission has been granted the Center to pay for the installation of TV cable to service fifty-three loca- tions at the center. This payment may not be made until the entire system is installed. It is a policy of the government not to purchase any non-existing service. A purchase order can be issued at the present time. Upon completion of the system the purchase order will be processed and payment will follow within thirty days. I hope this method of payment will be satisfactory to the TV cable company with whom you are negotiating. I realize they prefer the money be placed in escrow in advance of installation but I am confident they can understand the government's position. - 1-

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