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July 9, 2015 By AMK

Commerce Dept. not accurately reporting contracting data to FPDS-NG database

The Commerce Department isn’t accurately reporting contracting data to the federal government’s main procurement database, says a recent Commerce inspector general report.

Commerce Dept.The IG originally initiated the investigation to determine whether contracting officials effectively managed undefinitized actions, or a contract for which the terms, specifications or price are not agreed upon before the work is started. Undefinitized actions are only meant to be used to meet an urgent requirement, the report says.

But because NOAA and NIST incorrectly coded some of their contract actions as undefinitized in the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation, or FPDS-NG, the IG redirected the investigation to see how much of the reported data is accurate.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/ig-commerce-not-accurately-reporting-contracting-data-fpds-ng-database/2015-06-25

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Commerce Dept., FPDS, NIST, NOAA, undefinitized

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