Open Recommendations

The Commissioner, Small Business/Self-Employed Division should review the 40 businesses identified as ineligible for the Qualified Small Business Payroll Tax Credit and recover any erroneously claimed credit.

Work with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services to ensure its policies and procedures support payroll reconciliations and certifications for each pay period.

Work with the Health and Human Services Commission to ensure it has controls to grant privileged access only to appropriate authorized users.

We recommend that BOR implement a method for publicly reporting more detailed data regarding Inflation Reduction Act funds awarded to non-Federal entities via miscellaneous obligations.

We recommend BOR immediately require the appropriate staff to review the Federal exclusions list before issuing Inflation Reduction Act-funded agreements and to document the review in the contract file.

We recommend BOR develop and implement policies requiring staff to document review of the Federal exclusions list before issuing agreements that use Inflation Reduction Act funds.

We recommend that BOR Direct the Upper Colorado River Commission to develop and implement controls to ensure it considers Federal guidance in 2 C.F.R. 200.331 when it classifies agreements and documents justifications for its classifications.

We recommend that BOR direct the Upper Colorado River Commission to develop and implement policies and procedures in compliance with 2 C.F.R Part 1400 and 2 C.F.R. Part 180 to document review of the System for Award Management exclusions list before issuing agreements that use Federal funds.

We recommend that BOR to the extent the Upper Colorado River Commission classifies agreements as subawards, direct the Upper Colorado River Commission to develop a mechanism to ensure adherence to applicable Federal subaward requirements, including guidance for performing risk assessments, determining monitoring plans, and reporting subawards to USASpending.gov, as required by the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act.

1a. Amend the company’s infrastructure asset management strategy to
include specific objectives and performance metrics for bringing its assets
into a state of good repair.

1b. Develop and implement an approach to communicate the company’s
infrastructure asset management policy companywide.

1c. Amend the company’s infrastructure asset management plan to include
activities and resources needed to meet its objectives, and develop and
implement an approach to communicate roles and responsibilities to
internal stakeholders.

2a. Complete ongoing efforts to align the company’s infrastructure asset data
between Maximo and GIS. This should include re-establishing a feature to
automatically update these data.

2b. Establish a process to regularly validate that the company’s infrastructure
data are complete, accurate, and aligned between systems, as appropriate.
As part of this process, regularly monitor the effectiveness of the
company’s practice to add and remove infrastructure assets in Maximo
and GIS.

2c. Complete ongoing infrastructure condition assessments and establish a
process to ensure that the company uses these assessments to inform
SOGR activities.

Verify that delayed mail counts are entered correctly into the Mail Condition Visualization system at the Norfolk Local Processing Center.

Develop and implement a plan to reduce the delayed processing of mail arriving at the Norfolk Local Processing Center after the critical entry time.

Take measurable actions to retrieve all lost scanners at the Norfolk Local Processing Center.

Establish and implement procedures to account for Surface Visibility and Postal Vehicle Service scanners at the Norfolk Local Processing Center.

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.

Verify that all drivers are using wheel chocks at the Norfolk Local Processing Center.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator, in coordination with the Department’s Senior Procurement Executive and Director of Acquisition Management, direct FirstNet Authority’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Procurement Officer to: Ensure that future NPSBN contracts and task orders sufficiently define performance standards and measurements of success for achieving requirements prior to their award to protect the government’s interest in accordance with the FAR.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator, in coordination with the Department’s Senior Procurement Executive and Director of Acquisition Management, direct FirstNet Authority’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Procurement Officer to: Ensure service availability requirements for the 5G network and Pacific territories are clearly defined within the contract.

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator, in coordination with the Department’s Senior Procurement Executive and Director of Acquisition Management, direct FirstNet Authority’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Procurement Officer to: Modify the current NPSBN QASP to ensure that:

(a) The method for measuring service availability is designed to protect the government’s interest and ensure that services rendered by AT&T meet contract requirements and that the measurement provides a complete and accurate assessment of service availability.
(b) Surveillance methods are sufficiently defined and detailed to verify that AT&T’s performance meets service availability contract requirements…