Open Recommendations

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…

We recommend that the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Administrator direct FirstNet Authority’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Procurement Officer to: Conduct sufficient surveillance of service availability prior to acceptance of contract deliverables, including obtaining appropriate data required for oversight, performing random audits, reviewing AT&T’s QCP results, and applying timely remediation procedures in instances of noncompliance, as directed in the QASP and the FAR.

We recommend the Vice President, Nuclear Engineering, evaluate probability of occurrence and financial impact to verify they are accurately reported.

We recommend the Vice President, Nuclear Engineering, take steps to ensure that risk information in the Enterprise Risk Management system of record is accurate.

The Commissioner, LB&I Division, should assess the compliance risk of **********2**********, and the viability of using Form 1099 data to identify Form 8938 nonfilers to improve the compliance efforts of Campaign 896.

The VA Fayetteville Coastal Healthcare System Director confirms full implementation of the VA Community Care Oversight and Consult Management Council.