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Federal Spending Transparency: Actions Needed to Help Ensure Procurement Data Quality
GAO-25-107469
Sep 25, 2025
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12 Open Recommendations
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure that the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, in collaboration with the Administrator of GSA, specifies and notifies all agencies required under the FAR to complete and submit procurement data quality reports. (Recommendation 1)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure that the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, in coordination with the Administrator of GSA, defines the roles and responsibilities for both OMB and GSA related to collecting and tracking agencies' procurement data quality reports. (Recommendation 2)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure that the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy designs and implements procedures to monitor procurement data quality reports to help ensure that agencies address reporting requirements, including submitting reports timely. (Recommendation 3)
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Office of Management and Budget The Director of OMB should ensure that the Administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy updates and consolidates the office's guidance for improving federal procurement data quality to help ensure that all reporting requirements, information, and references included are current and streamlined. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Energy The Secretary of Energy should ensure that the Office of Acquisition Management develops a sampling methodology, in consultation with appropriate experts, to help ensure that DOE's procurement data quality sampling procedures are statistically valid and meet OMB guidance. (Recommendation 5)
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General Services Administration The Administrator of GSA should ensure that the Office of Government-wide Policy documents detailed sampling procedures to help ensure that procurement data quality sampling techniques are performed accurately, consistently, and in accordance with OMB requirements. (Recommendation 6)
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National Nuclear Security Administration: Additional Steps Needed to Improve Cost Estimates for Fixed Price Subcontracts
GAO-25-107258
Sep 09, 2025
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1 Open Recommendations
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National Nuclear Security Administration The NNSA Administrator should ensure that each M&O contractor's policy related to estimating costs for fixed-price construction subcontracts incorporates commercial best practices related to cost estimating, such as by directing its M&O contractors to fully or substantially meet each of the 12 steps identified in GAO's Cost Guide. (Recommendation 1)
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COVID-19 Relief: Treasury Could Improve Compliance Procedures and Guidance for State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
GAO-25-107909
Jul 22, 2025
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Department of the Treasury The Secretary of the Treasury should develop and document, in Treasury's internal procedures and guidance for recipients, the timing and circumstances under which Treasury will initiate recoupment of awards for recipients that have not met SLFRF reporting requirements. (Recommendation 1)
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National Security Space Launch: Increased Commercial Use of Ranges Underscores Need for Improved Cost Recovery
GAO-25-107228
Jun 30, 2025
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3 Open Recommendations
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the U.S. Space Force collaborates with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense Comptroller to better define, through updates to the DOD Financial Management Regulation, direct and indirect cost collection and reimbursement guidance for support services at launch ranges. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the U.S. Space Force prioritizes issuing a solicitation that provides insight into commercial payload processing schedules to meet its needs for increased processing capacity in an efficient, economical, and timely manner. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Defense The Secretary of Defense should ensure that the U.S. Space Force prioritizes issuing a solicitation that centralizes national security payload processing schedules across space vehicle program offices to meet the government's needs for increased processing capacity in an efficient, economical, and timely manner. (Recommendation 3)
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