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About Reimbursable Work Authorizations (RWAs)
Lawrence Melton (202) 501-0285 larry.melton@gsa.gov Reimbursable work authorizations (RWA) are established to capture and bill our customers the cost of:
There are two types of RWAs:
It is GSA’s policy to charge direct labor to an RWA if the time spent was for providing the work requested on the RWA. The time spent supporting the RWA work is not charged as direct labor to the RWA. GSA’s authority to obtain payments for:
Since federal agencies are responsible for their own programmatic needs and costs, it follows that those agencies should use their appropriations to pay the cost of work performed on their behalf or in furtherance of their missions. In the absence of statutory authority for GSA to absorb these costs, any unreimbursed costs to GSA on behalf of another agency could be viewed as an unauthorized augmentation of that agency’s appropriations. Reimbursable services, provided on an actual cost basis, must recoup all of this agency’s costs in providing those reimbursable services, and thus must be allocated overhead. This understanding is consistent with previous GSA Inspector General reports and with Comptroller General decisions interpreting inter-agency reimbursements under the Economy Act. |