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B-234103 1 (1989-08-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnnx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: F; /Y!FGL2,kC *The Comptroller General * fe United States Washinton, D.C. 2058 Decision Matterof- JDS Funding Group, Inc. File: B-234103 Date: August 24, 1989 DIGEST Payment should not be made to purported assignee of payments due under an Army purchase order where there was no valid assignment of the right to payment under the purchase order. Notations on the purchase order listing the purported assignee as the proper addressee for payment cannot substitute for a valid assignment satisfying the requirements of the Assignment of Claims Act. Those requirements must be strictly construed to accomplish the purposes of the Act of preventing multiple claims on the government and of making unnecessary the investigation of alleged assignments. DECISION This is in response to a request from C. R. Hack, Finance and Accounting Officer at the Army's Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York, for an opinion concerning a claim by JDS Funding Group, Inc., for $4,259.35 as the purported assignee of Operating Scientist, Inc., under contract number DAAA22-88-M-0124. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that the claim should not be paid. FACTS The Army issued the purchase order for certain electronic equipment on May 24, 1988. The listed contractor was Operating Scientist, Inc. The completed purchase order, however, included the following notation: NOTE: PAYMENT ADDRESS: JDS Funding Group, Inc. 226 North Franklin Street Hempstead, N.Y. 11550. Operating Scientist apparently completed deliveries under the purchase order and presented the Army with an invoice cY4(, 31-7 /39 7

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