Open Recommendations

Establish a process for emergency procurements to document and maintain analysis, decisions, and commitments, to include, at a minimum, those identified in this report.

Develop and implement a process to analyze and determine when documented deliverables should be required on emergency service contracts to ensure contract personnel have the ability and resources to oversee contractor performance.

Perform retrospective reviews when the FDIC conducts or tests emergency acquisition procedures.

Review the work performed and information used by the four non-U.S. citizens and take appropriate action.

Provide training and guidance to its Executive Management and personnel reinforcing their roles and responsibilities in carrying out and overseeing the FDIC’s emergency acquisition procedures. This training and guidance should include, at a minimum, the following:
• understanding roles and responsibilities;
• initiating and performing emergency and expedited procedures; and
• initiating, modifying, approving, and submitting requirements packages.

We recommend that the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard conduct an analysis to determine how best to use available resources in District 8 to increase its IUU fishing interdiction rate.

We recommend that the Acting Commandant of the Coast Guard develop and implement a measurable performance goal for IUU fishing enforcement on the high seas or within the EEZ of another nation.

We recommend FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate Assistant Administrator develop and implement an agreed-upon process to establish and report Operation Stonegarden grant performance measures and targets to the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

We recommend FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate Assistant Administrator develop and implement a methodology for estimating the percentage of Operation Stonegarden grant funds used for drug enforcement activities.

We recommend FEMA’s Grant Programs Directorate Assistant Administrator develop and implement a process in coordination with CBP to obtain and review Operation Stonegarden grant performance information reported to Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Work with Vendor One to remediate (or accept the risks associated with) the vulnerabilities identified with its charging stations.

Work with Vendor Two to remediate (or accept the risks associated with) the vulnerabilities identified with its charging stations.

Work with Vendor Three to remediate (or accept the risks associated with) the vulnerabilities identified with its charging stations.

Some or all of the recommendation is not publicly available due to concerns with information protected under the Freedom of Information Act.

Some or all of the recommendation is not publicly available due to concerns with information protected under the Freedom of Information Act.

Provide suggested guidance to the district level to update their contingency operations plans to account for the inoperability of charging stations.

Update the performance plans for the National Account Managers to include standards regarding proactive efforts to develop new customers, and ensure these standards are incorporated into the annual marketing plan.

Develop a marketing plan to initiate contact with those agencies not currently doing business with GPO.

Develop specific and measurable annual targets for customer and revenue growth.

Revise policies and procedures to ensure accurate, current, and complete financial results are reported on all Federal awards.

Work with ARC to revise the non-ARC matching cost share amount final BAMR to include the costs incurred of $2,381,000 for A&E fees and the in-kind land acquisition, if requested.

Revise policies and procedures to include procedures for determining the allowability of costs to comply with the Uniform Guidance and ensure costs incurred under Federal awards are allowable and allocable.

Review the 17,568 COVID-19 EIDLs and Emergency EIDL Advances identified with business establishment dates after January 31, 2020, to determine eligibility and to seek recovery of funds from ineligible recipients.

Assess the automated controls within the agency’s new lending platform, the Unified Lending Platform (ULP), to ensure they align with clearly defined disaster assistance criteria.

(U) Rec. 1: The DoD OIG recommended that the DoD Chief Information Officer develop and implement a process requiring DoD Components to identify changes to their software, hardware, and firmware information, such as changes to manufacturer or device names, and update their information technology inventories in a timely manner.