Recommendation Contents
OIG recommends that the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations, in coordination with the Bureau of Administration and the Office of the Legal Advisor, a) determine whether and, if so, to what extent the architecture-engineering firm Kieran-Timberlake PLC (under contract # SAQMMA-10-C-0060)—for design deficiencies—and the construction contractor B.L. Harbert International, LLC (under contract # SAQMMA-12-C-0111)—for construction deficiencies—are responsible for the $147,120 in questioned additional costs expended to replace gas appliances with electric appliances at the new U.S. Embassy London due to the failure to comply with contract requirements regarding host country laws, codes, ordinances, and regulations and b) recover from each firm those costs for which they are determined to be liable.