Tennessee Valley Authority OIG

We performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by Barnard Construction Company, Inc., (Barnard) to provide TVA support in connection with its coal combustion residual conversion program, activities or projects, and/or waste-water treatment, dewatering, and landfill...

We performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by BFI Waste Systems of North America, LLC dba South Shelby Landfill (BFI) for the transportation and off-site disposal of coal combustion residual (CCR) material from TVA’s Allen Fossil Plant to BFI’s South Shelby...

The Office of the Inspector General determined that bid evaluation and negotiation processes related for major equipment suppliers of gas construction projects were operating as intended; however, improvements were needed in TVA’s solicitation process. Specifically, we identified an opportunity for...

We performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by Wesco Distribution, Inc., (Wesco) for operations materials and industrial equipment as part of TVA’s integrated supply program under master Contract No. 13421. Under the contract, TVA pays Wesco the established rates in...

The Office of Inspector General determined that the Tennessee Valley Authority’s portfolio management process is not operating as intended. Specifically, we found: • Some types of projects did not follow the portfolio management process as required by Tennessee Valley Authority-Standard Programs and...

The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) requires each agency’s Inspector General (IG) to conduct an annual independent evaluation to determine the effectiveness of the information security program (ISP) and practices of its respective agency. Our objective was to determine...

The Office of the Inspector General performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by Service Electric Company (SEC) for transmission construction services provided under Contract No. 16986. The contract provided for TVA to compensate SEC on either a fixed price or cost...

The Office of the Inspector General performed an audit to determine if TVA manages access to nonpublic critical and sensitive information in accordance with TVA information management policy. Our scope was limited to TVA’s SharePoint® sites as of March 19, 2024. We determined TVA’s management of...

The Office of the Inspector General determined the Cumberland Energy Solution project complied with most elements of scope management and the bid process. However, we identified certain areas under each process that need improvement to help mitigate potential Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) risk...

As part of our annual audit plan, we performed an audit of costs billed to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) by Emerson Process Management Power and Water Solutions, Inc., (Emerson) under Contract No. 14688 for distributed control systems products and services. Our audit objective was to...