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Embassy Doha should bring visa advocacy and Consular Section access procedures into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should bring inventory audits of controlled consular supplies into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should perform regular reviews of locally employed staff contracting officers'transactions, in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should bring its contracting officer's representative program into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should enforce the requirement for vendors to register in the System for Award Management.

Embassy Doha should close out procurement files in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should bring its practices for procurement of cellular phone services into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha, in coordination with the Bureau of the Comptroller and Global Financial Services, should implement a plan to bring its furniture and appliance pool into compliance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha, in coordination with the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, should implement a standard operating procedure to identify potential landlord-provided costs of a personal nature, document those that may be recovered, and implement a plan, where appropriate, to recover the costs of landlord-provided services of a personal nature.

Embassy Doha should conduct a review of all structures on the embassy compound and ensure that they are reported in the Real Property Application.

Embassy Doha, in coordination with the Bureau of Global Talent Management, should update the embassy's local compensation plan in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should update the locally employed staff handbook in accordance with Department standards.

Embassy Doha should require supervisors to approve locally employed staff requests for overtime in advance and maintain written documentation of prior approval with requests, in accordance with Department standards.