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B-290901 1 (2002-12-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaohl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: tF=GAO ,Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: File: Date: DIGEST Bureau of Land Management: Payment of Pocatello Field Office Photocopying Costs B-290901 December 16, 2002 Photocopying services procured by a Bureau of Land Management field office from a commercial source in violation of 44 U.S.C. § 501, requiring that all such services be procured through the Government Printing Office absent a waiver, were not authorized and may not be paid with federal funds. DECISION A certifying officer of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Department of the Interior, has requested an advance decision under 31 U.S.C. § 3529 regarding the payment of photocopying services incurred by the Pocatello Field Office in Idaho. For the following reasons, we conclude that absent a waiver, BLM's appropriated funds are not available to pay for the services because of the statutory prohibition on procuring such services from a commercial vendor. BACKGROUND When the BLM Pocatello field office was named as a party to a lawsuit in the federal district court, the field office assigned staff members to help the Interior Solicitor's office prepare documents needed for the lawsuit. The documents needed filled six large boxes and included monitoring files, case files, allotment files, trespass files, technical documents, drawings, photographs and odd-sized maps. Each document needed to be Bate Stamped, meaning each page in the documents needed to be stamped, numbered sequentially by page and recorded into an index using a spreadsheet format. The Interior attorney sent an e-mail message to the Pocatello staff member in charge as well as others at the field office on November 20, 2001, requesting that three copies of the material be provided to him by November 28. However, work on Comptroller General of the United States

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