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Excerpts: In March through September 1999, the Government Printing Office's (GPO) Office of lnspector General (OIG) conducted a follow-up audit of the corrective actions taken on the recommendation with six suggestions reported in the Audit of GPO's Warehouse Space, Audit Report No. 96-08, dated August 23, 1996. The audit noted that management officials' actions on all six suggestions contributing to the use of GPO's office, production, and warehouse space more efficient...
Excerpts: The Office of the Comptroller maintains records for over 13,000 items of property for 21 5 cost codes. As of April 30, 1999, these items of property had an original cost of over $202 million and a current book value of over $61 million. From July 1998 through March 1999, GPO's Office of the lnspector General (OIG) conducted a performance audit to evaluate the adequacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the management controls over property within the GPO. This O...
Excerpts: The Counseling and Complaints Processing Division (CCPD) of GPO's Office of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) is responsible for the receipt, processing, and resolution of formal individual complaints of discrimination. GPO's Complaints Officer's additional responsibilities include being the Contracting Officer's Technical Representative and assigning investigations to commercial contract investigators; reviewing and analyzing completed investigative reports; ...
Excerpts: The Graphics Supplies Section (GSS) of the Chemical and Environmental Division maintains an inventory of over 300 items of inks, raw materials and adhesives, and rollers that is used to accomplish one of its missions of producing inks and adhesives for the Production Department. As of April 12, 1999, these items had a listed inventory value of over $522,000. GSS also maintains an inventory of 69 items of property with an acquisition value of over $248,000.
Excerpts: In July and August 1999, the Government Printing Office's (GPO) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducted a review of the May 1998 lnternal Control Review submitted by the Electronic Systems Development Division (ESDD) of the Production Department. This review was conducted to determine the completeness of the assessments and reviews performed on ESDD as directed by GPO lnstruction 825.1 8A lnternal Control Program.
Excerpts: The objective of the audit was to evaluate the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the GSS maintaining two shifts as a result of concerns raised from the issuance of the OIG Audit Report Number 00-05 Report on Improving the Controls over Inventories in the Graphic Supplies Section on April 3, 2000: The audit determined that the GSS could accomplish its mission more economically, efficiently, and effectively with a single-shift operation in accordance with...
Excerpts: Attached is the report of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) audit on the billings and payments made for Program 3402-S (Blue Angels' Promotional Materials) from August 27, 1998, through July 31, 1999. The contract was terminated for the convenience of the Government, effective April 2, 1999. The objective of the audit was to determine whether all billings and payments were proper and in accordance with the Government Printing Office's (GPO) criteria and whet...
Excerpts: The Office of lnspector General conducted a performance audit to evaluate the adequacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the internal controls over the requisition process, and the timeliness and accuracy of the decisions to forward requisitions to the Production Department and the Printing Procurement Department. The audit included tests of requisitions received during the months of June and August 1998.
Excerpts: The infirm state of the non-delegation doctrine was demonstrated further in Loving v. United States. Article 118 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) provides for the death penalty for premeditated murder and felony murder for persons subject to the Act, but the statute does not comport with the Court?s capital punishment jurisprudence, which requires the death sentence to be cabined by standards so that the sentencing authority is constrained to narr...
Excerpts: The Office of lnspector General (OIG) has completed a performance audit on the effectiveness and efficiency of the Garage in conducting its operations on GPO motor vehicles, excluding industrial forklift trucks. The audit was conducted from November 1999 through March 2000 and found that, while the Garage has been able to maintain most of the motor vehicles in a serviceable and operational condition, opportunities exist to improve the internal controls over the...
Excerpts: The office of inspector general audited the travel controls procedures and accountability of the government printing office's travel program.
Excerpts: The office of the inspector general has completed a review of the processing procedures for acquiring non stock items and services on line from materials management service general procurement division.
Excerpts: An important function of GPO's Printing Procurement Department (PPD) is the conducting of large one-time procurements. These procurements, which are by definition not term contracts, are all for sums of $25,000 or more. During the last six months of Fiscal Year (FY) 2000, 350 large one-time procurements, valued at more than $62 million, were awarded.
Excerpts: An integral part of GPO's working environment is the Workers' Compensation Program (WCP). This program provides compensation to GPO employees who are injured or who incur illness in performance of, or in connection with, their duties. For Fiscal Year 2000, GPO incurred over $6 million in compensation costs, with an overall workers' compensation liability of over $32.6 million.
Excerpts: However opportunities exist to improve the internal controls over th reporting of productive time by th video keyboard section operators.
Excerpts: The Office of lnspector General conducted a performance audit to evaluate the adequacy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the internal controls over the acquisition of motor vehicles under leasing and full maintenance agreements. The audit identified several opportunities to improve controls over leased vehicles within GPO and to reduce overall costs of transportation. These three recommendations, when implemented, will improve and strengthen controls over motor...
Excerpts: The government printing office commercial credit card program is an essential tool for prompt and efficient small purchase of goods and services.
Excerpts: Opportunities however exist to improve the internal controls by the central office departments in the following five areas...
Excerpts: The Superintendent did question the size of the samples used by the auditors and stated that many of the samples were taken from the same day. In response, the sample sizes were adequate to identify the problems that SuDocs personnel continue to have with dishonored checks, follow up letters, and foreign checks. The samples were taken from the January 10, 2001, Weekly Cumulative Dishonored Check Report that included dishonored checks from September 1998. In add...
Excerpts: Attached is the report of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) performance audit on the procurement controls over the Denver Regional Printing and Procurement Office (RPPO) from October 1, 2001, through April 30, 2002. An onsite visit was made on June 10-20, 2002, at the Denver RPPO. We are taking the unusual step of issuing the report without the benefit of your comments because, despite repeated requests for comments, none have been provided in the two and on...