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Department of Housing and Urban Development
The County of San Diego, San Diego, CA, Did Not Support Continuum of Care Match and Payroll Costs in Accordance With Requirements
Acquisition and Procurement: Contracts Included Key Provisions to Reduce Risks, but the Company Lacks an Efficient and Effective Contract Management System
Our audit objectives were to assess whether key contract provisions aimed at mitigating legal and financial risks were included in high-value, high-risk active contracts, and to assess the company’s contract record-keeping practices to identify opportunities, if any, for improvement. We have redacted the sensitive data from the report.Our work showed that all 20 of the high-value, high-risk company contracts we reviewed contained key contract provisions that successful organizations commonly use to mitigate risks - such as warranties, insurance, indemnifications, and bonds. However, we found that internal controls for managing contracts are weak because the company lacks a contract management system.To address an identified internal control weakness and reduce its financial and legal risks, we recommended that the company document and initiate a plan for the timely completion of the steps necessary to fully define user requirements for a contract management system, determine how best to meet those requirements, establish roles and accountability for system implementation, secure the needed resources, and establish a project monitoring process to implement a cost-effective solution for enhancing the management and oversight of its contracts.In commenting on a draft of this report, the company’s Vice President, Senior Managing Deputy General Counsel, stated that the company agreed with our recommendation.
Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of the U.S. Postal Service’s irregularity reporting process for highway contract routes (HCR) at the Chicago Network Distribution Center (NDC). This is the second and final report in our series examining HCR irregularities.
The objective of our audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Postal Service’s National Recycling Program (NRP). In fiscal year (FY) 2014, the Postal Service approved $33 million for the NRP as part of an overarching initiative to drive waste and cost out of operations, generate revenue, and provide better stewardship for the environment. The goal of the NRP is to reduce trash disposal costs; and increase recycling revenue from office mixed paper, undeliverable standard mail, and discarded lobby mail by maximizing the value of the existing network.
