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B-231134 1 (1988-12-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnib0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision ABF Freight System, Inc.--Rate Applicability-- Materof: Conflicting Versions of ',the Same Rate Tender File: B-231134 Date: December 6, i988 DIGEST One version of a tender supplement received by the General Services Administration (GSA) depot at Fort Worth, Texas, restricted the tender's rates to shipments weighing 20,000 pounds or less. Another version of the same supplement received by the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) contained no similar restriction. The GSA depot tendered a shipment weighing 29,600 pounds. The carrier contended that higher tariff rates were applicable because the shipment weighed over 20,000 pounds. The GSA transportation audit determined that the lower tender rates were applicable and collected the difference as overcharges. GSA's audit action is sustained. Since the supplement received by MTMC was offered to the United States Government, without the exclusion of any agency, the lower tender rates were applicable to the shipment tendered by GSA. DECISION ABF Freight System, Inc. (ABF), requests review of audit action taken by the General Services Administration (GSA) in which the agency determined that ABF collected over- charges for the transportation of a government shipment, and recovered the overcharges by deduction. We sustain GSA's audit action. BACKGROUND GSA's supply depot, Fort Worth, Texas, tendered a shipment of Freight All Kinds to ABF on March 15, 1985, weighing 29,600 pounds. ABF billed and was paid charges on the basis

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