[Question Concerning GSA Deduction Actions To Recover Overcharges]
Highlights
A firm requested a review of the General Services Administration's (GSA) deduction actions on several government bills of lading to recover overcharges from monies otherwise due it, contending that because different carriers picked up the shipments at the origin and interlined with them, it was due joint-line rather than single-line rates. GAO found that: (1) GSA had determined that lower single-line rates were applicable since the origin carriers were merely the protester's pick-up agents, rather than interline carriers, and had deducted the difference in the amount due the carrier; and (2) the documents that the protester presented indicated that the pick-up carrier was doing so as the agent of the protester. Accordingly, the agency actions were sustained.