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[Decision Concerning EPA Payment of Recruitment Advertisement]

B-226248 May 13, 1987
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requested a decision concerning whether it could ratify an improperly authorized contractual commitment to publish a recruitment advertisement in a newspaper. GAO noted that EPA delegated authority to approve publication of such advertisements to regional contracting officers. GAO held that: (1) the delegation of authority was legally permissible; and (2) there was prior written authorization for the advertisement, although by the wrong official. Accordingly, EPA may honor the contractual agreement.

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