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B-286929 1 (2001-04-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptamnw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: G A 0 Comptroller General SIntegrity Reliability of the United States ~ccountabthty Inert Rea iy United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: Continued Availability of Expired Appropriation for Additional Project Phases File: B-286929 Date: April 25, 2001 DIGEST The U.S. Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) entered into an agreement with the General Services Administration's (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) to implement a declassification information management system pursuant to GSA's multiyear contract authority in 40 U.S.C. § 757. Although the agreement envisioned a three-phase project, PERSCOM obligated fiscal year 1997 funds to cover only the first phase. Because PERSCOM entered into an agreement for only the first phase of the declassification project and incurred an obligation during the period of availability of the appropriation only for the first phase, PERSCOM may not apply the expired balance of the amount originally obligated for the first phase of the project to complete the remaining project phases. DECISION The certifying officer for the U.S. Total Army Personnel Command (PERSCOM) requests a decision regarding the continued availability of a fiscal-year 1997 appropriation to cover additional phases of a project initiated through an interagency agreement with the General Services Administration (GSA), as authorized by 40 U.S.C. § 757. PERSCOM, in 1997, obligated its fiscal year 1997 appropriation in the amount of $17.5 million for one phase of a three-phase project. To complete the first phase, PERSCOM needed only $8.5 million of the total amount obligated. PERSCOM would now like to apply the remaining amount to the remaining two phases of the project. Because PERSCOM entered into an agreement incurring an obligation for only one phase of the project, it cannot now obligate and charge payments for additional phases to the expired fiscal year 1997 appropriation. BACKGROUND Executive Order (EO) 12958, Classified National Security Information, dated April 17, 1995, prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information. Pursuant to E.O. 12958, the U.S. Army is

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