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The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should implement an annual action plan for its Functional Bureau Strategy to identify priorities and objectives and communicate them to its staff.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should implement a staffing plan as part of its FY 2019 Bureau Resource Request.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should implement a standard operating procedure for future annual statement of assurance processes that includes reviews of contracts, information security, and refugee admissions processes.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should implement an action plan to improve its monitoring and evaluation of cooperative agreements and grants.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, in coordination with the Bureau of Administration, should implement internal control procedures for delivery order SAQMMA14F1425 to prevent spending in excess of the contract ceilings.
The Bureau of Administration should determine whether the questioned costs of $1,361,408 incurred under SAQMMA11F4076 and $845,429 incurred under delivery order SAQMMA14F1425 in support of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Enterprise System, as identified by OIG, are allowable, and recover any costs determined to be unallowable.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should implement procedures to accurately track compliance with the Department’s 80-day Civil Service hiring target, as specified in the service-level agreement with its shared services provider.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should review all purchase card records, including supporting documentation, and file all missing documentation for acquisitions processed.
The Bureau of Administration should determine whether the questioned costs of $48,996 incurred in support of the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration security services, as identified by OIG, are allowable, and recover any costs determined to be unallowable.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration should designate purchase card supervisors as purchase card approving officials and the Executive Director as the purchase card program coordinator.
The Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, in coordination with the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, should implement a program of closing-hours security checks to safeguard classified material.