Final Report on the Follow-up Review on the Procedures for Controlling Payments Against DoD-issued Government Bills of Lading
Abstract
We are providing this Report on the Follow-up Review on the Procedures for Controlling Payments Against DoD-issued Government Bills of Lading (GBL's) for your information and use. We made the review from January through May 1990. The review objective was to evaluate management actions taken in response to recommendations in Report No. 87-141, "Procedures for Controlling Payments Against DoD-issued Government Bills of Lading," May 7, 1987. Specifically, we evaluated management actions to ensure GBL's with total charges under $200 were submitted to the General Services Administration (GSA) for rate audit; assess interest charges when carriers received duplicate payments; establish automated system capabilities to detect duplicate billings from commercial carriers before payments were made; reduce the incidence of duplicate serial numbers on GBL's and improve controls over edit procedures and payments made by more than one paying office; control payments on GBL's reported as lost, missing, stolen, or canceled; report lost, missing, stolen, or canceled GBL numbers to all three DoD payment offices; and implement applicable internal controls. From September 1, 1988, through August 31, 1989, DoD paid commercial carriers $617 million to move 1.3 million freight shipments under GBL's.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 07, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA380654
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense