Open Recommendations

We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Establish and implement a plan to improve monitoring activities to ensure grantees and sub-recipients are properly documenting eligibility.

We recommend the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training: Resolve the $6.9 million in questioned costs associated with unaccounted expenditures and assist the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development in expediting the closure of corrective action related to its accounting system.

Develop a plan to include proposed quantities, projected cost, and actionable milestones to fully deploy the eArrow lock and high security mailbox initiatives, and include measures to assess their effectiveness.

Improve vulnerability management processes to ensure system changes occur within organization timelines.

Develop and approve an authorization to operate for the special-purpose systems.

Include system personnel during the security categorization process to ensure that all necessary information types are considered when determining the security categorization for special-purpose systems.

Implement the appropriate physical security controls to restrict and monitor access to the facility, its server room, communication closets, and generators.

Complete a Master Plan to address all of the buildings’ needs for the next 10-20 years or more, beyond the current project-specific “Facilities Management Master Plan,” and use the Master Plan to prioritize projects.

We recommend that Millennium Challenge Corporation determine the allowability of the $151,268 ($62,146 ineligible and $89,122 unsupported questioned costs) detailed on pages 58, 62, 78, and 116 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation verify that MCA-Nepal corrects the material instance in internal control that is also an instance of material noncompliance detailed on page 116 of the audit
report.

We recommend that the Millennium Challenge Corporation verify that MCA-Nepal corrects the twelve instances of material noncompliance detailed on pages 58 to 64, 78, 81, 85 to 95, 103, 105, and 112 of the audit
report.

Determine whether to seek legislation to amend the Internal Revenue Code to permit the Internal Revenue Service to share with SSA non-covered pension data for all Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance beneficiaries.

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Determine whether Bechtel is compliant with CAS 401, Consistency in Estimating, Accumulating and Reporting Costs.

Develop a policy that prescribes cost estimating system requirements, similar to those in Appendix 4, Estimating System Criteria, for inclusion in Department contracts.

"We recommend that the Manager, River Protection, direct the Department Contracting Officers
to: 1. Ensure all Hanford Site contractors have an adequate estimating system, including:
• Establish specific local policies and procedures that address estimating techniques such as Monte Carlo, CERs, and unit rate development.
• Require personnel to have sufficient training, experience, and guidance with regards to the contractor’s established estimating procedures.
• Identify and document the sources of data and the estimating methods and rationale used in developing cost estimates. (Verify that contractors submit proposals that allow for detection and correction of errors in a timely manner.)
•…

Include the requirement for an adequate estimating system and associated estimating system criteria (see Appendix 4, Estimating System Criteria, for suggestion) in Bechtel’s contract as part of any future modification negotiations.

We recommend that CPB management require KDNA-FM to fully comply with Act requirements for advance notice for open meetings and for making the reasons for a closed meeting available to the public within 10 days following the closed meeting date.