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OIG recommends that the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives' compliance with the requirement to develop and use monitoring plans consistent with Grants Policy Directive 42, "Monitoring Assistance Awards."
OIG recommends that Embassy Phnom Penh develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives' compliance with the requirement to develop and use monitoring plans consistent with Grants Policy Directive 42, "Monitoring Assistance Awards."
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives' compliance with requirements to perform and document their reviews of performance and financial reports consistent with Grants Policy Directive 16, "Designation of Grants Officer Representatives," and Grants Policy Directive 42, "Monitoring Assistance Awards."
OIG recommends that the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives' compliance with requirements to perform and document their reviews of performance and financial reports consistent with Grants Policy Directive 16, "Designation of Grants Officer Representatives," and Grants Policy Directive 42, "Monitoring Assistance Awards."
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives' compliance with requirements to perform and document their reviews of performance and financial reports consistent with Grants Policy Directive 16, "Designation of Grants Officer Representatives," and Grants Policy Directive 42, "Monitoring Assistance Awards."
OIG recommends that the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs develop and implement a process to track grants officer representatives’ compliance with requirements to perform and document their reviews of performance and financial reports consistent with Grants Policy Directive 16, “Designation of Grants Officer Representatives,” and Grants Policy Directive 42, “Monitoring Assistance Awards.”
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration, Office of the Procurement Executive, in coordination with the Bureau of Human Resources, develop and implement a policy regarding the inclusion of grants officer representative responsibilities into the annual performance evaluation factors for employees assigned as grants officer representatives.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (a) determine whether questioned costs of $11,114 charged to grant S-INLEC-12-GR-0027 and $2,286 charged to grant S-INLEC-13-CA-0034 are allowable and supported and (b) recover any costs determined to be unallowable or unsupported.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (a) determine whether questioned costs of $3,502 in unsupported expenses charged to grant S-INLEC-12-GR-0074 are allowable and supported and (b) recover any costs determined to be unallowable or unsupported.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, (a) determine whether questioned costs of $2,663 charged to grant S-PMWRA-12-GR-1057, $14,140 charged to grant S-PMWRA-11-GR-0060, and $9,612 charged to grant S-PMWRA-11-GR-0015 are allowable and supported and (b) recover any costs determined to be unallowable or unsupported.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement, (a) determine whether questioned costs of $9,826 in unsupported expenses charged to grant S-PMWRA-11-GR-0050 and $27,124 in unsupported expenses charged to grant S-PMWRA-11-GR-0015 are allowable and supported and (b) recover any costs determined to be unallowable or unsupported.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor discontinue the use of third-party contractors as grants officer representatives in accordance with Office of Management and Budget and Department of State policy.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, in coordination with the Bureau of Administration, Office of Logistics Management, Office of Acquisitions Management, utilize all appropriate hiring, appointment, and funding authorities to assign only eligible personnel as grants officer representatives in accordance with Office of Management and Budget and Department of State policy.
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Administration, Office of the Procurement Executive, no longer grant waivers for Department of State bureaus to use third-party contractors as grants officer representatives until full-time-equivalent Federal Government employees can be hired to replace them.