The OIG audited Information Technology's (IT) use of non-craft staff augmentation (SA) contractor employees working in IT positions during February 2016 for which TVA paid about $1.8 million in labor costs and associated labor markups. Overall, we found the majority of the 207 SA contractor employees had straight-time hourly pay rates less than or equal to TVA midpoint hourly pay rates and the rates were comparable to TVA employee pay rates for the corresponding job codes. However, we also found (1) TVA management's approval of SA contractor employee compensation exceeding the midpoint rate did not take into account the contractor's indirect cost markup rates applied to the pay rate, (2) IT does not currently have a policy in place requiring knowledge transfer from contractor to TVA employees, (3) manual data entry is required to update minimum and midpoint pay rates from TVA human resource information system, People Lifecycle Unified System (PLUS), into TVA's contractor system, IQNavigator (IQN), and (4) IQN compares a contractor employee's hourly rate change (e.g., pay increase) to the midpoint rate in effect for the job code when the assignment was made, rather than to the current midpoint rate unless a new assignment is created.
| Report Date | Agency Reviewed / Investigated | Report Title | Type | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Valley Authority | Information Technology's Use of Contractors | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Federal Labor Relations Authority | Evaluation of the Federal Labor Relations Authority's Compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 for Fiscal Year 2016 | Inspection / Evaluation | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Afghanistan's Road Infrastructure: Sustainment Challenges and Lack of Repairs Put U.S. Investment at Risk | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | ||
| Department of the Treasury | Information Memorandum for Secretary Lew, Department of the Treasury: Management and Performance Challenges Facing the Department of the Treasury | Top Management Challenges | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council | Letter to the Honorable Thomas Vilsack, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Chairperson, Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council: 2016 Management and Performance Challenges | Top Management Challenges | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Federal Housing Finance Agency | Performance Audit of the Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General’s Information Security Program Fiscal Year 2016 | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Federal Housing Finance Agency | Performance Audit of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Information Security Program Fiscal Year 2016 | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Troubled Asset Relief Program | Taxpayers on the Hook for Billions of TARP Dollars to be Paid to Ocwen, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Nationstar & Other Who Keep Abusing Homeowners and Breaking Federal Rules in HAMP | Other | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| Election Assistance Commission | Management Challenges for EAC in Fiscal Year 2017 | Top Management Challenges | Agency-Wide | View Report | |
| USAID's Measuring Impacts of Stabilization Initiatives: Program Generally Achieved Its Objectives, but USAID's Lack of a Geospatial Data Policy and Standards Affected Its Implementation | Audit | Agency-Wide | View Report | ||
