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B-231519 1 (1989-06-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnmo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ,The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Emerald City International Corporation - Household Goods Shipment - Non-packing Deduction File: B-231519 Date: June 23, 1989 DIGEST A carrier shipped the household goods of a Department of Defense employee on a Government Bill of Lading, but performed no packing services. The carrier disputes the method used by the General Services Administration (GSA) in reducing the carrier's charges based on nonperformance of packing. We conclude that GSA's audit action is supported by the Military Traffic Management Command's rate solicitation which provides for carriers to offer rates based on a percentage of a baseline rate. The GSA correctly deducted the non-packing deduction from the individual carrier's percentage rate filed with MTMC, not from the baseline rate. DECISION Emerald City International Corporation (Emerald) requests review of deduction action taken by the General Services Administration (GSA) arising out of the agency's audit of the carrier's transportation bills pursuant to 31 U.S.C. S 3726 (1982), as amended. The dispute concerns the method of applying a rate reduction when the carrier performs no packing services. We sustain GSA's action. BACKGROUND Emerald responded to a Military Traffic Management (MTMC) solicitation for rates to transport household goods shipments with rates which were stated, as required by the solicitation, in terms of a percentage of the baseline rates that were provided in section 8 of the solicitation, which provided that: Carriers in responding to this Rate Solicitation must independently submit their rates as a per- centage above or below or equal to these baseline ot---7 13q01</

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