Open Recommendations

1. We recommend that the Director of the U.S. Census Bureau consider the actions in the conclusion section of the report when implementing changes to the 2030 redesign.

More clearly define successful prepurchase and postpurchase homeownership counseling outcomes and use these definitions to help establish performance metrics and benchmarks for HUD's Office of Housing Counseling and HUD-approved housing counseling agencies. This should include the types of successful outcomes under the Homeownership Initiative Grant, as well as other positive outcomes for clients that do not involve immediate homeownership.

Implement routine client outcome data analysis to identify trends, quantify performance metrics and benchmarks, and measure the impact of prepurchase and postpurchase counseling on advancing homeownership. This should include routine analysis that HUD's Office of Housing Counseling can implement based on data collected as well as continuing to pursue an updated housing counseling data system to help overcome client outcome data limitations.

Enhance monitoring of HUD-approved housing counseling agencies' performance, to include progress toward the established performance metrics and benchmarks.

We recommend that USAID/Senegal verify that African Center for Advanced Studies in Management corrects the one material weakness in internal control detailed on page 37 of the audit report.

We recommend that USAID Power Africa determine the allowability of $41,552 in questioned costs ($41,032 ineligible, $520 unsupported) on pages 11, 13, and 20 to 25 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

Mint Director ensures that the Mint recovers its costs on the lost 120 Congressional Award Program (CAP) medals from the sole source contractor.

Mint Director ensures that the Mint engages its Protection officials to complete the Mint’s investigation of the lost CAP medals and conducts a lessons-learned review of this incident to implement process improvements for future contracts.

Mint Director ensures that the Mint conducts a fully competitive solicitation for a source that can provide plating for the CAP medals.

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.

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.

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

Review GPO Instructions 810.26, Motor Vehicle Management Program, and 810.11B, GPO Property Management Program, for
applicability and update or replace them with policies and standard operating procedures that align with current organizational structure and business operations.

Establish clear roles and responsibilities in fleet management policies and standard operating procedures for the Fleet Manager and Agency-wide supervisors and employees.

Develop procedures to maintain a complete and accurate database of fleet assets. Assess and leverage opportunities to incorporate automation to improve process efficiencies.

Develop and implement detailed standard operating procedures for a service and repair maintenance program and assign an owner to maintain a centralized tracking system to ensure all fleet assets are routinely inspected, results are documented, and any remedial actions are taken in a timely manner.

Ensure all vehicles and powered industrial trucks from this report are promptly assessed for repair and/or disposition actions.

Develop and implement detailed standard operating procedures and checklists to verify that all disposition actions are completed within a defined period before marking a returned item as complete in the surplus property system.

Assess all non-operating or neglected vehicles and industrial trucks identified in this report to begin timely disposition actions, if needed.

USAID/Philippines determine the allowability of $118,950 in questioned costs ($53,133 ineligible and $65,817 unsupported), as detailed on pages 26 to 33 of the audit report and recover any amount that is unallowable.

The Chief, Direct File, should ensure that the total costs of Direct File include the costs from all support functions.

The Chief, Direct File, should notify the 669 taxpayers we identified of their potential eligibility to claim the education credits. The notice should inform them of their potential eligibility and steps for claiming the credits.

The Veterans Integrated Service Network Director, in conjunction with facility directors, ensures facility community care oversight councils function according to their charters and meet the required number of times per fiscal year.