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B-213489 1 (1984-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlov0001 and id is 1 raw text is: • THE OOMPTROLLER GENERAL DECIOION OP THE UNITED *TATEU 4. WAGHINGTON, 0. 0. 20548 UITQ FILE: B-213489 DATE: March 13, 1984 MATTER OF: Sierra Vista Office Products, Inc. DIGEST: Contractor who provided requested pad holders with silk screen printing to the government pursuant to an unauthorized oral request may be paid on a quantum valebant basis since the government received the benefit of the supplies. However, payment for the pad holders is limited to the amount for which they should have been purchased under a mandatory Federal Supply Schedule contract, plus a reasonable value for the silk screen printing. The United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, requests our decision on whether Sierra Vista Office Products, Inc. is entitled to payment of $375.53 for 54 pad holders with silk screen printing delivered to the Forest Service's Civil Rights Office. We believe payment should be made. The record indicates that a staff member of the Civil Rights Office who did not have procurement authority orally contacted Sierra and placed an order for the pad holders. The pad holders subsequently were used at an office meeting. This purchase occurred after the agency's procurement officer had told the staff of the Civil Rights Office that oral purchase orders would not be ratified and, accordingly, he has refused to ratify this purchase. The Forest Service advises that the pad holders are listed on a mandatory Federal Supply Schedule (FSS), and that silk screen printing can be procured through the General Services Administration. In appropriate circumstances, including when a contracting officer declines to ratify an informal or unauthorized commitment, payment may be made for services rendered on a quantum meruit basis (the 0O1&i

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