Menu Search Account

LegiStorm

Get LegiStorm App Visit Product Demo Website
» Get LegiStorm App
» Get LegiStorm Pro Free Demo

VA Acquisition Management: Supply Chain Management and COVID-19 Response

  Premium   Download PDF Now (13 pages)
Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 9, 2020
Release Date June 9, 2020
Report No. GAO-20-638T
Summary:

We testified on the Department of Veterans Affairs’ ability to provide its medical centers with critical medical supplies during its response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our initial observations found that VA’s long-standing problems with its antiquated inventory management system limited how efficiently the agency could oversee the stock of critical medical supplies—such as N95 facemasks and isolation gowns—at its medical centers.

The VA has taken steps to improve its response efforts, but fully resolving the problem at the agency level is at least 7 years away.

Supply Point in a Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Supplies in a shelving unit

Supplies in a shelving unit

« Return to search Government Accountability Office reports