Federal Reports

Our objective was to determine whether U.S. Postal Service contracting officers (COs) are properly extending contracts. The Postal Service may use options or renewals to extend contracts beyond the original agreement when doing so would represent the best value for the organization. As of July 2017, the Postal Service had 313 open contracts over eight years old, with invoice activity within the last two years. The Postal Service paid over $3.4 billion on these contracts. We judgmentally selected 62 contracts to review, for which the Postal Service paid over $520 million.

Our objective was to determine whether the U.S. Postal Service has implemented effective physical security and environmental and wireless access controls according to policy and industry best practices at the [redacted] Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC). The [redacted] P&DC is 630,806 square feet and processes about 475 million mailpieces annually. The facility also includes a retail store, business mail entry unit (BMEU), and administrative offices. We selected this site based on Postal Service and OIG facility risk assessments.

The OIG initiated an investigation after an inventory of a safe located in the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) Office of Law Enforcement and Security (OLES), found that thousands of dollars in gift cards were unaccounted for.We found 119 gift cards in the safe, valued at $2,345, and property receipts that indicated more than $10,000 in gift cards had been provided to a former OLES official and another BLM employee to use towards official purchases. We were unable to determine the disposition of the remaining gift cards because there was no documentation, and the former OLES official and the other BLM employees we interviewed did not recall how the gift cards were disposed of.

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