Opinion ID: 464954
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: accessorial services

Text: 6 In addition to the question discussed in Part I, supra, No. 84-5837 attacks Defense's 1984 decision (in Item 11 of Household Goods Domestic Rate Solicitations 4-1) to prescribe charges for certain accessorial services associated with the transportation of household goods. 3 We have no doubt that the Government's wide power over its own procurement, taken together with express permission granted by 49 U.S.C. Sec. 10721(b)(1) (former Section 22), supra, gives the Defense Department adequate authority to set the charges it will accept for these incidental services. 4 If an individual carrier or forwarder does not wish to accept that level of charges, it remains free to decline to make a tender or offer. There is no compulsion to deal with the Government, and Sec. 10721(b)(1) surely does not give the appellants any right to deal with the Government if the latter deems the carrier's (or forwarder's) charges to be too high. The prescription of charges for the accessorial services gives Defense a rational and practical means for selecting low cost carriers, instead of having to take account of all the potential variations in accessorial charges submitted by different carriers or forwarders. For these reasons, the decision is 7 Affirmed.