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B-226311 1 (1988-03-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmzu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OLR a The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- A-Transport Northwest Company - Rate Applicability - Tender Interpretation File: 3-226311 Date: March 2, 1988 DIGEST 1. A tender offered a decreasing scale of rates to correspond with an increasing scale of weights, up to 6,000 pounds. The carrier assessed the higher 2,000-pound rate on weights in excess of 6,000 pounds, for example, on 2,000 pounds of an 8,000-pound shipment. We sustain the General Services Administration's (GSA) determination that the 6,000-pound weight was a truckload minimum weight and thus, the 6,000-pound rate is applicable to the entire shipment. 2. Even though a carrier fully loads its vehicles to satisfy government requirements, merely loading a vehicle to full capacity does not provide a basis for exclusive-use- of-vehicle charges without a request for such service annotated on the bill of lading. 3. A. carrier claimed additional charges where some of the GSA Notices of Overcharge show that the overcharges were based on gross weights while others did not specify gross or net. In the absence of compelling contrary evidence, it was not improper for GSA to accept the shipping agency's report indicating that all Government Bills of Lading involved contained the gross weights of shipments, as required by the carrier's tender, rather than net weights. Thus, GSA's disallowance of the carrier's claims is sustained. DECISION A-Transport Northwest Company (Northwest) requests the Comptroller General to review transportation audit actions taken by the General Services Administration (GSA)._/ A 1/ The carrier has requested us to investigate the shipping practices at the installations involved here. Our review of GSA's audit action in this case, however, was based on the written record, including the carrier's statements and agency reports, in accordance with our usual practice. 4kCo/3517

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