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Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled (AbilityOne Program)
We are pleased to present our oversight plan for the 2026 calendar year. This risk-based plan intends to serve as a roadmap for independent and objective oversight of the U.S. AbilityOne Commission’s (Commission) programs and operations through reviews, audits, evaluations, and investigations. Our audit, evaluation and investigative teams prioritize oversight of nearly $4 billion funds that are disbursed through the AbilityOne Program (Program) and the AbilityOne Commission. The goal is to prevent and detect fraud, waste and abuse, and enhancing economies and efficiencies in AbilityOne and its programs.
Throughout the oversight cycle, the OIG will continue to focus on high-risk areas in the program and operations. Our process to assess and prioritize the planned work include but are not limited to, assessing the top management and performance challenges, congressional interests, key risks for which the Commission and other stakeholders expressed concern, and the results of our prior work. We then used this information to inform the design of our oversight reviews for usefulness to the Commission for its work and operations.
During the oversight cycle we may reassess and adjust this plan to ensure that we continue to focus our resources on the highest risks and impact areas.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) is initiating a risk assessment of the U.S. AbilityOne Commission’s Charge Card Programs. The “Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012” requires the Inspector General to conduct periodic assessments of the Commission’s purchase and travel card(s).
The objective of the risk assessment is to analyze and identify the risks of illegal, improper, or erroneous purchases and payments within the Commission’s charge card programs to determine whether an audit is warranted or make recommendations and identify areas of risk that the Commission could improve to strengthen its charge card programs.
The Reports Consolidation Act of 2000 requires the Executive Branch Inspectors General to identify and report annually on the top management challenges facing their agencies. The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), Office of the Inspector General (OIG), also adopted this requirement as a best practice.
