GAO Urges Agencies Better Follow OMB IT Contract Requirements
DOD, DOJ and five other departments must better implement OMB-mandated activities aimed at “preventing, identifying, and reducing duplicative” IT contracts, GAO reported Wednesday. Six of the seven “fully implemented” requirements to identify a senior accountable official and train workforces on…
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IT contracting, GAO said. “Almost half the agencies had fully implemented the activity associated with sharing contract information.” Until “agencies fully implement the activities in OMB’s category management initiative, and make greater use of spend analyses to inform their efforts to identify and reduce duplicative contracts, they will be at increased risk of wasteful spending,” GAO said. “Agencies will miss opportunities to identify and realize savings of potentially hundreds of millions of dollars.” The seven agencies, which also include Agriculture and State, concurred with recommendations.