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FAS's Use of Pricing Tools Results in Insufficient Price Determinations

Submitting OIG:

General Services Administration OIG

Date Issued:

Monday, December 23, 2019

Agency Reviewed / Investigated:

General Services Administration

Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number:

A180068/Q/3/P20002

Location(s):

Agency-Wide

Type of Report:

Audit

Number of Recommendations:

3

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Attachment	Size
A180068_1.pdf	1.45 MB

Related Open Recommendations

Recommendation Number	Recommendation Status	Significant Recommendation	Additional Details
3	Open	Yes
We recommend that the FAS Commissioner develop and implement controls to ensure compliance with FAS Policy and Procedure 2018-03 - Proper Documentation of Price Analysis Decisions – Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) Program – in regards to documenting use of the pricing tools. Specifically, controls should ensure FAS contracting officers document: The criteria used in the query of the pricing tools; all detailed data records obtained in the pricing tool output; a verification that labor category comparisons made using the pricing tools are “same or similar” in accordance with FAR 15.4; and any filtering or removal of data records the contracting officer determined were outliers or not “same or similar.”