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B-190624 1 (1980-01-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacupu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 (2-Y9) Office of General Counsel In Reply Referto: B-190624 JAN 7 1880 Thomas P. Wolf Assistant Commissioner Office of Transportation Audits General Services Administration Washington, D.C. 20405 Dear Mr. Wolf: ~A~r~J Subject: Trans Country Van Lines--c4\Goo3(, Your letter of May 1, 1979 Your file TACS (SR-015861-JFF) You request reconsideration of our decision of August 29, 1978, B-190624, to Trans Country Van Lines, Inc. (Trans Coun- try). In the decision we held that certain provisions of Trans Country's individual rate tender did not expressly or by inference disclose an intention to combine the rate basis in the individual tender with that in another tender for the purpose of computing linehaul rates on shipments trans- ported over 3,000 miles. In your request for reconsideration, you do not offer any new facts or argument. Instead, you cite GAO interpre- tations in three previous cases which you believe are incon- sistent with the holding in the Trans Country case. They are 53 Comp. Gen. 868 (1974), a decision to Trans Country; a litigation report to the Department of Justice in an unrelated case; and an office memorandum to GAO's former Transportation and Claims Division. The litigation report sets forth arguments for use in prosecuting a debt and the office memorandum contained in- ternal instructions to one of our Divisions concerning the propriety of issuing certain notices of overcharge. Neither interpretation is a decision nor is it relevant to this case. In 53 Comp. Gen. 868 (1974), to Trans Country, we held among other things that the carrier's individual rate tender applied. We also said as dicta that although certain pro- visions in Trans Country's individual rate tender disclosed

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