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FSA's Controls Over Its Contract Closeout Process

Report Information

Date Issued
Report Number:
03601-0003-41
Report Type
Audit
Component
Farm Service Agency
Description
OIG evaluated the Farm Service Agency and the Farm Production and Conservation Business Center’s administration and oversight of the contract closeout process.
Joint Report
No
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$738,907

Recommendations

Establish an action plan to timely and effectively clear the current backlog of contracts that need to be closed out and to deobligate any remaining funds.

Establish a process that ensures contracts are timely closed out and any remaining funds deobligated.

Develop and implement a mechanism to nationally track the estimated dates for when contracts need to be closed out and any remaining funds deobligated.

Provide periodic training to contracting staff on the use of the standardized checklist FPAC-BC developed and the contract closeout documents required in the contract files.

Establish an action plan to timely and effectively clear the current backlog of contracts that need contractor performance evaluations completed in CPARS.