Open Recommendations

(U) Rec. 1.b: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense Energy, Installations, and Environment develop guidance establishing metrics that include financial risk management parameters and triggers including, but not limited to, threshold changes to scope, cost, or timeline; emerging issues; dispute resolution; and statutory reporting requirements when higher headquarters engagement is required.

(U) Rec. 3.a: The DoD OIG recommended that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commanding General issue guidance to implement lessons learned from the U.S. Strategic Command Facility Construction Project into other military construction projects that contain DoD-unique requirements.

(U) Rec. 3.d: The DoD OIG recommended that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Commanding General complete an after-action review following the construction of the U.S. Strategic Command replacement facility.

(U) Rec. 4: The DoD OIG recommended that the U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center Commander conduct program life-cycle evaluations to determine the success of the Cost Estimating Improvement Plan.

We recommend that the State agency ensure that the 200 instances of noncompliance with health and safety and administrative requirements identified in this report are corrected.

We recommend that the State agency consider developing templates for administrative records the State requires.

We recommend that the State agency ensure the health and safety of vulnerable adults by considering staffing standards and caseload thresholds for State licensors.

Repay to the program from non-Federal funds the $457,192 ($380,526 $48,420 $28,246) in NSP funds spent for the construction, air conditioning, and engineering services in instances in which procurement activities were not adequately performed.

Repay to the program from non-Federal funds $280,979 in NSP funds spent for property 1012 and identify and repay any additional costs spent on this property, including maintenance costs and any program income generated.

Repay to the program from non-Federal funds the $73,400 in NSP funds spent for mold and asbestos remediation work.

Provide documentation to support the $8,919 in NSP funds spent on rehabilitation costs or repay to the program from non-Federal funds.

Conduct a review of the remaining 10 properties not reviewed during our audit to ensure compliance with HUD requirements and identify and repay costs related to ineligible or unsupported activities (see appendix C).

We recommend that the State agency review retrospective review reports for our audit period and after our audit period to determine whether payments should be reduced for any claims that contain PPCs and refund to the Federal Government its share of any unallowable amounts.

Rec. 1.g: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Deputy Chief Financial Officer develop a comprehensive Treasury Index 97 Fund Balance With Treasury account reconciliation process that incorporates the entire Fund Balance With Treasury universe of transactions (funding, collections, disbursements, and transfers of funds) in accordance with the DoD Financial Management Regulation.

Rec. 1.h: The DoD OIG recommended that the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Deputy Chief Financial Officer require DoD disbursing stations to report transaction-level data to the Department of the Treasury on a daily basis.

We recommend that the Ministry implement training on the VAP process.

We recommend that the Ministry work with CDC to obtain $343,930 of VAT reimbursement from the South African Government.

We recommend that Retirement Services develop and implement additional cost effective corrective actions, aimed at the root cause(s) of improper payments, in order to further reduce the improper payments rate.

Refund $5,516,838 to the Federal Government

We recommend that the Chief Operating Officer for FSA ensure that staff involved in the contractor personnel security screening process are aware of and comply with the Directive requirements, to include any subsequent updates to the requirements, and fulfill their responsibilities for processing security screenings.