[Request for Decision on DMA Employee's Request for Retroactive Amendment of Travel Orders to Provide for Relocation Contract Services]

The Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) requested a decision regarding whether it could retroactively amend a transferred employee's travel orders to provide for relocation contract services, contending that it could amend the travel orders, since the services were discretionary services, not entitlements. GAO held that the DMA policy governing such services limited participation to certain employee categories and did not authorize participation for the employee's category. Accordingly, DMA could not retroactively amend the employee's travel orders to provide for relocation contract services.