Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

We audited $3.9 million of costs billed by a TVA contractor who provided engineering, materials, and installation support for automating TVA's hydro system. We found TVA was billed $380,000 for costs and associated fees that were either excessive, unsupported, or not in accordance with the contract...

We evaluated the design, implementation, and effectiveness of TVA's Ethics and Compliance Program and found:TVA's current ethics program was limited to the Office of Government Ethics' standards and requirements. The Designated Agency Ethics Officer (DAEO), currently within the General Counsel's...

We completed agreed-upon procedures to assist the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) in determining TVA's compliance with the annual reporting requirements of CRS' Green Pricing Accreditation Program for the year ended December 31, 2006. The required information on TVA's renewable energy initiative...

As part of our annual audit plan, we reviewed the processes related to identifying and managing surplus materials to determine if surplus material was identified and managed in accordance with TVA policies and procedures. We identified areas of noncompliance and recommended corrective action to...

We audited $58.5million of costs billed to TVA by a contractor for staff augmentation support services during FYs 2005 and 2006. We determined TVA was overbilled about $540,000 for labor costs due to duplicate billings, overpayments of labor hours, and use of incorrect wage rates. We also found the...

We audited $249million of costs for parts and services for Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant paid by TVA to a contractor from January1, 2000, through May31, 2006. We found the contractor overbilled TVA about $960,000 because the contractor had not always included discounts on prices it billed TVA as...

We determined:The PRIS backup failure was due to (1)human error and (2)the lack of proper controls which would have detected PRIS was no longer on the master backup schedule which resulted in not having backups performed for PRIS.The PRIS server failure was due to hardware failures and the impact...

We determined: TVA's Privacy Summary Report to the OIG needed improvement in three areas.TVA's privacy policies and procedures were generally consistent with federal requirements; however, we noted (1) five areas where we believe further guidance is needed, and (2) TVA is in the process of updating...

We conducted a review of 52 TVA non-compete contracts to determine whether non-competed contracts are issued and administered in compliance with TVA policies and procedures, including assessing the justification for the non-competed contract award. We found: Two contracts could not initially be...

We reviewed 42 loans initiated through Economic Development's (ED) four loan programs (Economic Development Loan Fund, Minority Business Development Loan Fund, Business Incubator Loan Fund, and Special Opportunity Counties Loan Fund) and found:Management had not fully implemented procedures...