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B-209375 1 (1982-12-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadktv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: )1ao on-1 DECISION THU COMPTROLLER ONIERAL OF THIS UNITED BTATEU WA S3H IN GCTO NI 0.0C. 2015 4 8 FILE: .B-.209375 DATE: December 7, 1982 MATTER DIGEST: OF: united States Information Agency Excess Cost of Hotel Rooms The Director of the United States Information Agency requests a deter- mination that the Agency may rent accommodations for employees on temporary duty at a cost in excess of the statutory limitation where the use of the particular accommoda- tions is an integral part of the employee's job and failure to provide such accommodations would frustrate' the ability of the Agency to carry out its statutory mandate. Under the ciroumstances described by the Director, including implementing administrative safeguards, we hold that the Agency may rent the accommo- dations as required. The costs are a necessary administrative expense of transacting official business. This decision responds to a request by Charles Z. Wick, Director, United States Information Agency, concerning the use of appropriated funds for the payment of expenses for the renting or leasing of cooms for employees traveling on temporary duty. Under the circumstances described below, the Agency may continue to rent rooms for the performance of official business at a cost over the allowable subsistence expense limitation. In a recent decision we held that, although a Government contracting officer may contract for rooms and meals for employees ors temporary duty, appropriated funds are not aAvilable to pay per diem or actual subsistence expenses in excess of that allowed by statute or regula- tion. Bureau of Indian Affairs, B-195133, 60 Comp. Gen. 181 (1981). We held that the statutory limitations apply whether the rooms and meals were furnished by contract paid by the agency ow whether the agency directly reimbursed the employee for those expenses. In his letter, Mr. Wick asserts that this decision is having an adverse impact on the United States Information

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