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January 25, 2018 By AMK

Agencies failed to identify over a quarter of IT contracts in 2016

A recent Government Accountability Office report has found that within 22 federal agencies reviewed, 31,493 IT contracts accounting for $4.5 billion went unidentified by those agencies in 2016.

The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, or FITARA, enacted in 2014, requires covered agencies’ chief acquisition officers to identify IT contracts for the chief information officers to review and approve. However, GAO found that nearly 30 percent of those contracts were not identified appropriately in 2016.

“The percentage of additional IT contract obligations GAO identified varied among the selected agencies. For example, the Department of State did not identify 1 percent of its IT contract obligations. Conversely, 8 agencies did not identify over 40 percent of their IT-related contract obligations,” the report said.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2018/01/12/agencies-failed-to-identify-over-a-quarter-of-it-contracts-in-2016/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: FITARA, GAO, IT, obligations

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