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B-213771 1 (1984-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlug0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL O CISION OP THE UNITED STATES WAGHINWTON, O.C. 20548 FILE: B-213771 DATE: July 10, 198& MATTER OF: General Services Administration'l)incremental Reimbursement of General Supply Fund for Operating Equipment Purchases DIGEST: 1. General Services Administration (GSA) when using the General Supply Fund (GSF) to procure GSF operating equipment but whose cost will ultimately be charged to annual appropriation available for paying GSF operating expenses is bound by same prompt reimbursement requirement applicable to other requisitioning agencies under section 109(b) of the Federal Property and Adminis- trative Services Act of 1949, 40 U.S.C. S 756(b) (1982), since it possesses no legal authority on which it can base its claim for exemption from application of this provision and the Congress has not by acquiescence approved GSA's action. 2. Lump-sum appropriation Py the Congress to General Services Administration (GSA) for operation and maintenance without objection to GSA explanation of its proposed method of spending line item in its budget request does not constitute Congressional sanction of spending action in contravention of legal requirement that the General Supply Fund (GSF) be promptly reimbursed the full purchase price of items requisitioned through the GSF. Appropriation of lump-sum appropriation does not constitute either ratification ot GSA's action or impliea repealer of prompt reimbursement requirement. This decision is in response to separate inquiries from Joseph A. Sickon, Inspector General of the General Services Administration (GSA) and Allie Latimer, General Counsel of GSA, asking the same basic question: Whether the Federal Supply Service (FSS) within GSA, in the year of purchase, may charge the General Suqply Fund (GSF) for the entire cost of operating equipment (i.e., equipment necessary to fulfill the mission of the FSS), and reimburse the GSF over the useful life of such equipment by crediting the GSF during each

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