Federal Reports

At the request of the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA) Supply Chain, we examined the cost proposal submitted by a company for engineering, design, and construction support services. Our examination objective was to determine if the company's cost proposal was fairly stated for a planned 5-year, $200 million contract.In our opinion, the company's cost proposal included labor markup rates for the recovery of indirect costs that were misstated. We estimated TVA could save $7.44 million over the planned $200 million contract by negotiating revisions to the labor markup rates to more accurately reflect the company's recent actual costs. In addition, we found the proposed labor rate ranges were not reflective of the actual salary costs of the company.(Summary Only)

OIG reviewed USDA’s rural housing programs to determine potential areas ofoverlap, duplication, and fragmentation.

The purpose of this memorandum is to provide the Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) comments on the Wildland Fire Response Plans (WFRP) that were developed in order to more safely and effectively combat wildland fires during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic

Prior Office of Inspector General audits of State Medicaid agencies that used random moment timestudies (RMTSs) to allocate costs for school-based administrative (SBA) costs determined that States did not always correctly claim Federal Medicaid reimbursement for SBA services. Nebraska, whose SBA costs we have not previously audited, uses RMTSs to allocate those costs.

We determined that children brought to Port Isabel on July 15, 2018, waited extended periods, and in many cases overnight, to be reunited with their parents. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was not prepared to promptly reunify all children who arrived at Port Isabel on the first day of attempted mass reunifications. ICE and U.S. Health and Human Services had fundamentally different understandings about the timing and pace of reunifications, and ICE personnel at Port Isabel underestimated the resources necessary to promptly out-process the parents of arriving children. As a result, some children waited in vehicles at Port Isabel, while others waited in unused detention cells, though all children were in climate-controlled environments and had continuous access to food, water, and restrooms. As the mass reunifications continued, ICE personnel responded to processing and space issues, which generally resulted in shorter wait times for children who arrived at Port Isabel closer to the court’s July 26, 2018 deadline. The report contains no recommendations.