Assessment of VHA’s Administration of Journey, Obligation Stations, Salaries and Funds within the Procurement and Logistics Office

We performed this evaluation to find out the deserves of 4 allegations claiming the Veterans Health Administration’s Procurement and Logistics Office (P&LO) mismanaged journey, responsibility stations assignments, salaries, and funds. We substantiated two of the 4 allegations: P&LO did pay some staff the inaccurate salaries for his or her responsibility station places and P&LO did improperly use the VA Supply Fund to pay for journey. However, we didn’t substantiate that P&LO approved extreme, pointless journey or that staff had been nearly stationed away from the place they wanted to work. We decided P&LO wanted to strengthen inside procedures for approving journey. P&LO wants to make sure authorizing officers have direct data of worker journey plans and solely authorize journey after validating the need of the journey. P&LO paid three staff incorrect salaries attributable to inaccurate responsibility station assignments in FY 2010. Prior to our evaluation, P&LO recognized the errors for 2 of the three staff, and corrected the salaries and recouped associated overpayments. The third worker was overpaid about $18,000 into FY 2013 as a result of P&LO didn’t have commonplace procedures in place to make sure correct responsibility station assignments. Finally, P&LO improperly augmented FY 2010 appropriations by utilizing the VA Supply Fund to pay journey prices for an worker whose wage was funded by appropriations. P&LO didn’t have procedures in place to make sure acceptable use of the VA Supply Fund. We really helpful the Chief Procurement and Logistics Officer implement controls to strengthen worker journey evaluation and authorization. P&LO ought to provoke a periodic evaluation of all worker responsibility station assignments to appropriate project errors and recoup incorrect funds as acceptable. While the Under Secretary for Health concurred, the Principal Executive Director, Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction usually concurred with our report suggestions.