FY 2008 and FY 2009 DOD Purchases Made Through the General Services Administration
Abstract
As required by Public Law 110-181, "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008," we performed an audit of DoD contracting through the General Services Administration (GSA) to determine whether DoD and GSA improved their interagency purchasing practices since our last audit. We visited 10 DoD organizations and reviewed 50 purchases, valued at $255 million. Further, we visited 3 GSA Client Support Centers and reviewed 35 of the 50 purchases, valued at $203 million. DoD should continue to use GSA to purchase goods and services when in DoD's best interest. GSA has improved its funding and contracting practices. Specifically, GSA contracting and resource management officials generally complied with the Federal Acquisition Regulation and appropriation law when making the 50 purchases on behalf of DoD. In addition, DoD fund management has improved. However, DoD organizations showed little improvement in other areas since our FY 2005 purchases audit. DoD officials did not perform or inadequately performed acquisition planning for 36 of 50 purchases, DoD officials did not develop or had inadequate interagency agreements for 31 of 50 purchases, and DoD and GSA officials incurred potential Antideficiency Act violations for 3 of 50 purchases. DoD and GSA officials did not ensure that contracting officer?s representatives were assigned for 28 of 50 purchases, DoD and GSA officials did not have or had inadequate surveillance of contractor performance for 32 of 50 purchases, and DoD and GSA officials did not collect past performance information for 28 of 50 purchases. Finally, GSA contracting officials did not have support for price reasonableness determinations for 14 of 35 purchases reviewed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 30, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA546672
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense