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Sixth Semiannual Report to the Congress - Federal Housing ...
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No. Recommendation Report Status<br />
AUD-2013-002-4<br />
The Director of the Office of Budget<br />
and Financial Management should<br />
issue guidance to all acquisition staff<br />
and approving officials, including<br />
contracting officers and contracting<br />
officer’s representatives, on:<br />
• cost allocation and proper<br />
procedures for assigning costs<br />
to contracts in accordance with<br />
benefits received and based on the<br />
appropriate cost objective;<br />
• proper procedures for ensuring that<br />
contract employees meet labor<br />
category qualifications specified<br />
in time and material/labor hour<br />
contracts;<br />
• proper procedures for obtaining<br />
sufficient justification prior to<br />
increasing funds, adjusting fixed<br />
labor rates, and approving payments<br />
on time and material contracts;<br />
• appropriate procedures for<br />
evaluating contractor price<br />
proposals and documenting<br />
the agency’s pre-negotiation<br />
position prior to awarding contract<br />
modifications; and<br />
• appropriate use of contractor<br />
employees to substitute for internal<br />
agency positions and approving<br />
invoices based on contractual terms<br />
and provisions.<br />
FHFA’s Oversight of<br />
Contract No. FHF-<br />
10-F-0007 with<br />
Advanced Technology<br />
Systems, Inc.<br />
Recommendation<br />
agreed to by FHFA;<br />
implementation of<br />
recommendation<br />
pending.<br />
AUD-2013-002-5<br />
The FHFA contracting officer should<br />
remove the $105,000 of excess funds<br />
from contract line item number 1 to<br />
account for technical writing services<br />
ATSC was no longer required to<br />
perform under the contract line item<br />
number. Thereafter, the contracting<br />
officer should compare the new<br />
contract ceiling to the actual amount<br />
ATSC billed against contract line<br />
item number 1 and recapture any<br />
unallowable costs that exceed the new<br />
ceiling price.<br />
FHFA’s Oversight of<br />
Contract No. FHF-<br />
10-F-0007 with<br />
Advanced Technology<br />
Systems, Inc.<br />
Recommendation<br />
agreed to by FHFA;<br />
implementation of<br />
recommendation<br />
pending.<br />
92 Federal Housing Finance Agency Office of Inspector General