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B-219338 1 (1987-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadomm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptoller General of the tifnie States B..-,ngon V*4k B-219338 June 2, 1987 The Honorable Glenn English Chairman, Subcommittee on Government Information, Justice and Agriculture Committee on Government Operations House of R(epresentatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your inquiry of September 4, 1985, concerning a price provision in the contract awarded in September 1984 between the Department of Agriculture (DOA) and hartin Marietta Data Systems (MIMDS) for the development and operation of an elec- tronic dissemination of information system (EDI), The contract contemplates the EDI being furnished to two separate user groups. Level I users consist of bulk data users in the private sector who generally are expected to reararket the data to private end-users. Level 2 users consist of the various components of DOA. Rates for data dissemination services to Level 2 users are fixed by the contract. Level I users pay MMDS directly based upon a price schedule developed by !MDS. Under the contract, in addition to a volume discount offered DOA based upon DOA's Level 2 usage during an account period (monthly), the contract specifically provides for a further credit against billings to the Government based upon 10 percent of the revenues received by MMDS from Level I users during the prior accounting period. You expressed concern as to the legal propriety of the arrangement under which the Department of Agriculture accepts a 10 percent credit against its billing based upon services provided to the public by MMDS, and asked whether this arrangement constituted a barter, a user fee or something else. You also asked that we determine the legality of the arrangement. As a result of your inquiry we requested and received a report on this matter from the Office of Information

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