DOS - AUD-MERO-18-01 - 3

OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, review the contract oversight activities of the contracting officer, Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations project directors, contracting officer’s representatives, and alternate contracting officer’s representatives assigned to the New Embassy Compound and Housing construction project in Islamabad, Pakistan, between September 2010 and February 2017 to determine if unauthorized changes or alterations to the final design documents that require the contracting officer’s approval have occurred and to take action to address those found not to be duly authorized.