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B-270801 1 (1996-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaebc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: Request for Advance Decision from Defense Finance and Accounting Service File: B-270801 Date: March 19, 1996 DIGEST 1. Where assignment was properly executed and notice given in accordance with statutory requirements, the assignee is entitled to payment. Obligor (United States in this case) who had notice of valid assignment and, nevertheless, paid assignor is liable to the assignee for the amount of erroneous payment. 2. A disbursing officer who, pursuant to an invoice approved by the contracting officer, made erroneous payment to a contractor may be relieved of financial responsibility because the loss did not occur as result of bad faith or lack of due care on the officer's part. DECISION The Defense Finance and Accounting Service, Cleveland Center/New Orleans (New Orleans office), requests an advance decision in connection with an erroneous payment of contract funds to a contractor, Nantucket Renovations, which had assigned those funds to the Boston Financial Corporation pursuant to the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended, 31 U.S.C. § 3727; 41 U.S.C. § 15. On January 4, 1995, the New Orleans office bill payment branch received a voucher in the total amount of $31,755, for exterior repairs performed on hangars at South Weymouth, Massachusetts, Naval Air Station, by Nantucket Renovations under Contract #N62472-93-C-8768. The South Weymouth Naval Air Station certified the voucher for payment. The New Orleans office made payment to the payee shown in the contract document, Nantucket Renovations, by check number 8357-01181074, dated January 20, 1995, for $31,769.31.1 'There is no indication in the documents provided why the amount certified differs from the amount of the check. 234319

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