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B-229349 1 (1988-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadncu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 2048 Decision ExpressCo Inc. - Request For Review of General Matterof. Services Administration's Deduction Actions File: B-229349 Date: June 10, 1988 DIGEST A carrier's request for review of transportation audit actions taken by the General Services Administration (GSA) under 31 U.S.C. S 3726(d)(1) (1982) will not be considered by the Comptroller General to the extent transactions forming the basis of the request are not identified; and where a carrier fails to establish the existence of alleged informal agreements that it states formed the basis of its freight charges, overcharge deductions made by GSA based on lower tender charges are sustained. DECISION ExpressCo Inc. requests the Comptroller General under 31 U.S.C. S 3726(d)(1) (1982) to review transportation audit actions taken by the General Services Administration (GSA) in which overcharges were deducted from monies otherwise due the carrier. We sustain GSA's actions. ExpressCo's request for review involves two matters: (1) operation of the alternation clause contained in the carrier's tenders, and (2) the issue of truckload versus less-than-truckload rates. In GSA's audit of numerous ExpressCo bills the agency determined that lower charges, published in ExpressCo's rate tenders, were applicable, and deducted as overcharges the difference between the charges collected and the lower tender charges. ExpressCo concedes that it offered the lower rates to the government, but alleges that the higher charges it collected were based on informal agreements made with various transportation agents of the government who requested special services.

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