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B-103315 1 (1979-06-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A GAO 0 1*/ 7o7 United States Geneal Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel .3b In Reply Refer to B103315 JuN 2 91979 T Lawrence J. Dupre DQuty Assistant Secretary 5A for Operations Department of State Washington, D.C. 20520 Dear Mr. Dupret Subject: Use of ravelQgents Your le~ter oftJnuly 5, 1979 .You request our opinion as to whether use of a commercial travel pgency by the Embassy at Lima, Peru,'and pther oversesp-psts, would be permi4ible. You enclosed a telegram from the Lima MiElion stating that one loc4a firm has submitted an informal proposal to eutablish'a travel agency in the Embassy. The telegram provides only a oni paragraphflummry of the plan. The request for'out approval. of the pr posaaoremised on the fieval Accounting Office Report, A Look at the'Pr6htbitiod oin the Uce of Corcetcial Traval'Aaent.9, LCD-784219, August 8, 1978 (GAO e Althugh GO Report is inonclusive as to whetheror not theprohibitiori Nhould bilifted, it states' that, 'we would . . not objuct to lifting the piohibition(on an individual agencyasia)fo the extent that such action is shown to b more efficient and less costly. You contend that the use of commercial travel aents would 'revult in better quality service, a reduction of two staff personnel tnd an eatimated savings of $5,000. You believe that-although Braniff Airlines does provide basic travel services for the Lima Embassy, it seems that the use of a comercial agent would be more efficient and less costly. Your 'submission-does not include a specific proposal, with dttiled data 'to support the claim that the use of a commercial agent would be more efficient and lebsacostly than the present use of airline' services. It -ta an informal pi'roposal concerning'only the Lima Mlission which is speculitive as to the valuse to be garnered from the use of travel agents. -It is based on estimates which are not.substantiated by any actual study of the cost f using travel agents. No information is provided to support an exception

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