General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
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Contract Management - GAO High Risk Series
High-Risk Series: An Update, January 2005
Overview: DOE's contract management, including both contract administration and project management, continues to be at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In January 2003, GAO reported that DOE was implementing new tools to strengthen its contract and project management, but that contractor performance problems continued to occur and objective performance information was scarce. These conditions have not substantially changed.
High-Risk Series: An Update, January 2003
Overview: DOE's contract management, broadly defined to include contract administration and project management, continues to be a significant challenge for the department and remains at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. In a January 2001 report on DOE's major management challenges, GAO reported ongoing problems with DOE's approach to selecting an appropriate contract type, using competition to award contracts, incorporating performance-based measures into contracts, and minimizing cost and schedule overruns on major projects. DOE has made progress in addressing these problems. However, contractor performance problems continue to occur at DOE's laboratories and facilities.
High-Risk Series: An Update, January 2001
Overview: While DOE has made improvements in its management, the Department continues to face significant performance and accountability challenges. The underlying causes of these challenges include problems with DOE's organizational alignment and control, planning, budget formulation and execution, human capital, and contract and financial management.
High-Risk Series: An Update, January 1999
Overview: DOE is an agency with multiple performance and management challenges. The IG and the Department has documented these challenges and recommended reforms. DOE has taken corrective actions, but major performance and management challenges remain.
Other GAO Reports
- Contract Management: DOD Vulnerabilities to Contracting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, July 7, 2006
- Department of Energy: Additional Opportunities Exist for Reducing Laboratory Contractors' Support Costs, September 9, 2005
- Department of Energy: Improved Oversight Could Better Ensure Opportunities for Small Business Subcontracting, May 13, 2005
- Further Actions Are Needed to Strengthen Contract Management for Major Projects, March 18, 2005
- Contract Management: Opportunities to Importunities Surveillance on Department of Defense Service Contracts, March 17, 2005
- Equal Employment Opportunity: Information on Personnel Actions, Employee Concerns, and Oversight at Six DOE Laboratories, February 18, 2005
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Enhancements Needed to Strengthen Contract Management for Major Projects, August 5, 2004
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Further Improvements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program, August 5, 2004
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Further Improvements Needed to Strengthen Controls Over the Purchase Card Program, August 5, 2004
- Nuclear Waste: Absence of Key Management Reforms on Hanford's Cleanup Project Adds to Challenges of Achieving Cost and Schedule Goals, June 9, 2004
- Department of Energy: Certain Postretirement Benefits for Contractor Employees Are Unfunded and Program Oversight Could Be Improved, April 15, 2004
- Department of Energy: Reimbursement of Contractor Litigation Costs, November 26, 2003
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