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B-200095 1 (1980-10-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjbo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION .( ' OF THE NTE STATES WASHINGTON; 0. C. 2 O 5 4 E FILE: B200095 OATE: October 8, 1980 MATTER OF: Bureau of Land Management - Mobile Home Purchased - Unauthorized DIGEST: Notwithstandin gency.failure to comply with procurement regulation , amount due as final payment for mobile-home may be paid on a quantum valebant basis since Government received benefit and price is considered reasonable, if an authorized contracting official of Government recom- mends that payment be made. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), United States Department of the Interior, has requested our decision regarding the propriety of paying Hi-Sierra Mobile Home Sales (Hi-S_ erra) an amount owing for the purchase of a mobile homeja. SDring January and July 1979, a fire control officer of the Bakersfield, California District of ELM' solicited quotations for the lease/purchase of a mobile home from. three local vendors. The quotations were solicited orally, without issuance of a formal solicitation document or written specifications. Th eofficer awarded the contract to Hi-Sierra in August 197V9. Since the delegation of pro- curement authority to BLM district offices is limited to a small purchase maximum of $10,000, the requirement was split to erroneously show the procurement of two 12' x 60' trailers, rather than the single 24' x 60' unit actually purchased. In 1979, BLM made payments on two purchase orders, each in the amount of $7,500. After it discovered the improprieties described above, BLV1 withheld pay.ment of he third and final purchase order which was for $6,868. M found that the legal improprieties in the procurement were such that ratification of the contract award pursuant to Federal Procurement Regulations (FPR) § 1-1.405 was inappropriate. /i 57

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