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October 28, 2013 By AMK

DoD gears up for Round 2 of sequestration

Opponents of last year’s across-the-board spending cuts are hoping — perhaps  quixotically — that sequestration’s second verse won’t be the same as its  first.

Now that a bipartisan deal has ended the government shutdown, the resulting  budget conference committee is the new best hope for turning off the cuts that  have hit the Pentagon and defense industry hard and threaten to get even worse.

But even though the latest chapter in Washington gridlock is over, very little has actually changed.

“It’s important to note that Congress did not remove the shadow of  uncertainty that has been cast over this department and our government much of  this year,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday during a press briefing  at the Pentagon.

“The damaging cuts of sequestration remain the law of the land,” he said. “In  the months ahead, Congress will have an opportunity to remove this shadow of  uncertainty as they work to craft a balanced, long-term spending bill.”

Hagel urged lawmakers to give the Defense Department and its vast workforce stability and predictability after the ringer they’ve been through, including  sequestration furloughs over the summer and then shutdown furloughs more  recently.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/dod-gears-up-for-round-2-of-sequestration-98577.html 

 

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, Budget Control Act, budget cuts, deficit, discretionery spending, DoD, furlough, reductions in force, RIF, sequestration, spending, spending controls

August 16, 2013 By AMK

DOT employees made $58 million in improper purchase card charges, IG says

Nearly a quarter of all Transportation Department employee purchase card  transactions in fiscal 2010 and 2011 did not comply with DOT rules for employee spending, a departmental Inspector General report says.

During those years, DOT employees spent $277 million in 450,000 transactions  on their purchase cards, the report says. About $58 million of that did not  comply with DOT employee spending controls, the report says.

Purchase cards are routinely used to supplies and services, the report says.

DOT auditors based the results on a sample of 413 purchases in which 84,  totaling $254,000, did not comply with DOT rules.

Offenses ranged from not receiving approval prior to card use, receiving approval for purchases from officials that were not authorized to approve the  purchases and not verifying fund availability prior to purchases.

In the sample, about $93,000 in improper charges were made due to not getting  preapproval for a purchase. About $65,000 came from the wrong person approving  the purchase. And $47,000 came from purchases made without checking if the funds  were available, the report says.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/dot-employees-made-58-million-improper-purchase-card-charges-ig-says/2013-07-31 

Related Articles:
Forest  Service employees abused travel cards, IG says
Commerce  employees made improper purchases with agency cards, report says

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: Commerce Dept., credit card, DOT, FAA, Forest Service, IG, Interior Dept., Pcard, purchase card, spending, spending controls

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