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B-194970 1 (1979-07-03)

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                        THE  COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OECISION                OF   THE   UNITED STATES
                        WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


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FILE:  B-194970


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DATE: July 3, 1979


Manpower Temporary Services - Purchase
Orders for Typing Services


1.  Contracting activity issued several purchase
    orders for typing services in interim between
    resignation of sole typist and hiring of
    replacement. Relationship created was
    tantamount to that of employer-employee and
    as such violated general rule that personal
    services should not be obtained on contractual
    basis.  Vouchers for services received may be
    paid due to extenuating circumstances in this
    case.


.2. Vouchers may be paid on basis of facsimile
    signature if use was authorized by person
    whose name was imprinted on voucher and
    agency procedures permit use of facsimile
    signature.

    This  decision is in response to a request dated
May 22, 1978, from an authorized certifying officer of
the Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Depart-
ment of the Interior, for an advance decision as to
the allowability of payment on claims made by Manpower
Temporary Services (Manpower) totalling $521.58 pur-
suant to purchase orders/vouchers Nos. SFWA 396112,
SFWA 396115, and SFWA 422785. The claims were for
typing services provided the Gainesville Field Station
of the Fish and Wildlife Service during the period
from March through June 1978, in connection with a
project entitled, An annotated bibliography of the
fish and wildlife resources of Galveston Bay, Texas.

      The Acting Project Leader reports that the
project had a deadline of July 10, 1978, for the
first draft and amounted to approximately 500 pages
of typing.  The laboratory was without a typist during
this critical period of time because the laboratory's
sole typist had resigned and a replacement was not

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