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GAO: FBI, GSA Mismanaged Trilogy Contractors

Michael Arnone writes on FCW.com:

The FBI and the General Services Administration lacked sufficient management controls to prevent more than $17 million in potential overcharging and lost or stolen equipment in the FBI’s Trilogy information technology modernization program, the Government Accountability Office said today in a new report.

“FBI’s review and approval process for Trilogy contractor invoices, which included [the GSA] review in its role as contracting agency, did not provide an adequate basis to verify that goods and services billed were actually received by FBI or that the amounts billed were appropriate,” the report found.

The FBI must shape up its control of contractor payments or risk overpayments on future projects that involve contractors, the report states. That includes Sentinel, the bureau’s new $425 million comprehensive case management system.

posted by Fergie @ 3/20/2006 04:13:00 PM