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Department of Energy Contracting: Actions Needed to Strengthen Subcontract Oversight

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 12, 2019
Release Date March 12, 2019
Report No. GAO-19-107
Summary:

Almost the entire $30 billion Department of Energy budget goes to contracts, most of which have subcontracts.

What sort of scrutiny do these subcontracts get?

In a 10-year look back, we found more than $3.4 billion in subcontract costs that had not been audited as required—some of which was already past the 6-year statute of limitations to recover unallowable costs.

Yet Energy has not clarified which subcontracts should be audited and what an audit should entail.

We made 6 recommendations to address these and other issues we found with Energy's subcontract oversight.

 

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