https://www.gao.gov/products/456431

B-234103: Aug 24, 1989

PROCUREMENT - Payment/Discharge - Payment procedures - Contracts - Assignment 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. Inc.: This is in response to a request from C. The listed contractor was Operating Scientist. A partial payment under the purchase ord...

https://www.gao.gov/products/139397

B-234103: Aug 24, 1989

The Army requested a decision concerning a firm's claim for payment under an electronic equipment purchase order. The Army had issued a purchase order to another firm and had made a partial payment to the contractor and to the claimant. The claimant sought the total payment from the Army. GAO held that: (1) the assignment did not comply with the Assignment of Claims Act's requirements; and (2) the...