Audit of the RRB's DATA Act Submission for the First Quarter of Fiscal Year 2021

Date Issued

Friday, November 5, 2021

Submitting OIG

Railroad Retirement Board OIG

Other Participating OIGs

Railroad Retirement Board OIG

Agencies Reviewed/Investigated

Railroad Retirement Board

Report Number

22-01

Report Type

Audit

Agency Wide

Yes

Number of Recommendations

Questioned Costs

Funds for Better Use

Open Recommendations

This report has 2 open recommendations.

Recommendation Number	Significant Recommendation	Recommended Questioned Costs	Recommended Funds for Better Use	Additional Details
22-011	No	$0	$0	Management concurred with this recommendation.
The Office of Administration should incorporate into their weekly practice the review of contract awards to ensure procurement awards are approved in FPDS-NG within 3 business days of the contract award signed date.
22-012	No	$0	$0	Management does not concur with this recommendation. This recommendation remains open because the Office of Inspector General for the Railroad Retirement Board continues to see the need for the recommended corrective action.
The Office of Administration should update the DQP to include a procedure to perform and prepare reconciliation analyses to identify the activity that occurred between when the original contract/modification was awarded, when File D1 was generated, and when FPDS-NG reports are pulled to validate the amounts reported in File D1 for Current Total Value of Award and Potential Total Value of Award data elements. If the reconciliation process demonstrates these errors occur due to timing differences, RMA also recommends the Office of Administration work with Treasury to address this gap in the testing guidance to ensure these timing differences are not issues moving forward.