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B-210556 1 (1983-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkxs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION - OF THE UNITHO STATES WA8HINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-210556 DATE: March 7, 1983 MATTER OF: Equal Employment Opportunity Commission-- Use of Travel Agents by Dallas Office DIGEST: The procurement of transportation through group arrangement by a travel agent is authorized under Federal Travel Regulations, paragraph 1-3.4b, which is an exception to the general restriction against the use of travel agents for procurement of official Government travel; see 4 C.F.R. S 52.3 (1982), where an agency determines prior to the travel that the use of reduced fares results in monetary savings to the Government and is advantageous to the Government. A certifying officer of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requests our opinion on whether payment of two purchase orders is proper. These purchase orders were issued to cover the purchase of airline tickets through a travel agent for witnesses testifying for EEOC in court proceedings in Tulsa, Oklahoma. EEOC advises that thepurchase orders were issued to the travel agency under an EEOC memorandum which advised EEOC contracts division that: 11* * * appropriate use of travel agents and/or Purchase Orders for authorizing * * * travel * * * will result in both a reduction in paperwork, travel vouchers to be processed and * * * will help reduce the costs in * * * Travel. The EEOC memorandum referenced our decision in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission--Use of Travel Agents, B-201258, December 10, 1980. In that decision, we deter- mined that although EEOC made the finding after the travel was performed, since EEOC did determine that use of reduced fares in that case resulted in monetary savings to the Government and was advantageous to the Government, the pro- curement of the transportation through a group arrangement made by a travel agent was authorized under Federal Travel Regulations (FTR), paragraph 1-3.4(b), which is an exception

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