Open Recommendations

Implement written guidance to explain what authorities are appropriate to use to extend contracts beyond their initial performance periods, including any limitations associated with using each authority.

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Review the 1,799 PPP loans totaling over $89 million that matched a DNP data source to ensure eligibility requirements were met and seek remedy or repayment of all loans deemed ineligible.

Review the 49 PPP loans totaling approximately $3.5 million and the 43 loans totaling approximately $7.2 million to ensure borrowers met eligibility requirements and seek remedy or repayment of loans deemed ineligible.

Review PPP loans in which the DNP hold codes were cleared to 1) identify those cleared using pre-decisional memos and 2) those cleared without sufficient evidence to support the reviewer’s loan decision and seek remedy or repayment of loans deemed ineligible.

Develop and implement controls, such as supervisory reviews, to ensure PPP loans and loans for future stimulus programs with DNP matches receive manual reviews, as required. The reviews should ensure that pre-decisional memos are not used to clear DNP hold codes and that loan files contain relevant and appropriate documentary evidence to support the loan review decisions.

Develop and implement clear guidance requiring responsible officials to maintain documentary evidence used to support loan decisions in the loan files.

Review the 59,893 PPP applications that matched a DNP data source to ensure borrowers met eligibility requirements and seek remedy or repayment of loans deemed ineligible.

Review the additional 47,940 PPP loans totaling over $1.7 billion, identified through the DNP data match, to ensure borrowers met the eligibility requirements and seek remedy or repayment of loans deemed ineligible.

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1. We recommend that the Deputy Secretary of Commerce ensure the development and ongoing maintenance of a lifecycle cost estimate and schedule for the program in accordance with the Department's Acquisition Project Management Policy (DAO-208-16) and the U.S. Government Accountability Office's (GAO) Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide and Schedule Assessment Guide.

2. We recommend that the Deputy Secretary of Commerce ensure that the BAS Executive Board reviews the program's cost, schedule, and scope performance against baselines, as well as risk management and additional metrics needed to support adequate investment oversight.

3. We recommend that the Deputy Secretary of Commerce ensure the program defines and executes cost management controls in accordance with the Department's Acquisition Project Management Policy (DAO-208-16) and the Department of Commerce Cost Estimating Guide.

4. We recommend that the Deputy Secretary of Commerce ensure the program defines and executes schedule management controls in accordance with the Department's Acquisition Project Management Policy DAO-208-16 and GAO's Schedule Assessment Guide.