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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION OF THE UNITEO STATES
WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20546
FILE: B-199531 DATE: May 19, 1981
MATTER OF: Department of the Army: Services provided
by non-appropriated fund employees
DIGEST: Appropriated fund (AF) and non-appropriated
fund (NAF) personnel on Army base operate
separate billeting facilities in single
hotel/motel type quarters. NAF and AF clerks,
working alone, handle both NAF and AF transac-
tions on their respective shifts. Certifying
officer asks whether AF can reimburse NAF for
AF work performed by NAF employees, in light
of GAO decision 58 Comp. Gen. 94, that
purchases of services from NAFs, when author-
ized, must be treated as procurements, and of
finding that this procurement is unauthorized
because it involves personal services. Reim-
bursement is authorized. Transaction should
not be treated as procurement of personal
services, but as method of allocating expenses
of operating respective facilities on a cost
sharing basis.
This decision is in response to a f from a United States
Army Finance and Accounting Officer for an advance decision. His
request concerns the propriety of reimbursing a non-appropriated
fund instrumentality (-NIkP-) with appropriated fund , for work per-
formed by NAFI employees in support of appropriated fund activities.
Specifically, this case involves billeting activities at an
Army base. There are two types of accommodations available on the
base, both housed in a single hotel/motel type accommodation. One
type, which includes Visiting Officer Quarters, Bachelor Officer
Quarters, Distinguished Visitors Quarters, and Enlisted Bachelors
Quarters, is operated with appropriated funds. The other is a NAFI
enterprise operated to provide guest accommodations for relatives
of military personnel stationed on the base and other transient
needs. The volume of transactions, we are told, does not justify
having two desk clerks, one paid from appropriations and the other
a NAFI employee, on duty at all times to provide check in-check
out services for the respective operations. Instead:
[t]here are two appropriated fund desk clerks
and three nonappropriated fund desk clerks,
each working alone for an 8-hour shift. Each
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