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  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Reassess its policies regarding assessing and ensuring the security of inmates at the time of designation, redesignation, and transfer and consider (a) adding specific criteria for BOP officials within DSCC, OMDT, and Central Office to consider before approving the designation and redesignation of Broad Publicity and other CIM inmates; (b) whether changes should be made to the criteria for considering an inmate to be a member, leader, associate, former member, or drop-out of Organized Crime; (c) requiring that additional categories of inmates, such as inmates of a certain level of public notoriety, be referred to Senior Intelligence Designators or the Central Office Intelligence Office, prior to transfer; and (d) adding steps for receiving institutions to take to plan for the arrival of inmates of a certain level of public notoriety.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Create specific procedures for assigning inmates to units within facilities, which may include security considerations, SIS approval, and approval from the warden or other high-level officials.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Implement a policy identifying criteria for the inclusion of a service within the Working Capital Fund (WCF); once the criteria are formalized, JMD should evaluate and ensure that the services currently included in the WCF are appropriate, meet the documented criteria, and are clearly presented to the WCF Board for discussion of any necessary changes.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Review the Office of the Chief Information Officer's (OCIO) cost allocation methodology and update as necessary to ensure that component cost allocations are sensible, equitable, and commensurate with benefits of the services provided.
  • Resolved
    Other Component
    Update its policy to include specific criteria for identifying "basic activities" appropriate to be included in a Rate Memo and reevaluate OCIO's Rate Memos to ensure that the selected services reflect a consistent approach and "basic activities."
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Create and implement guidance for a QASP or QASP equivalent to use as the basis to monitor performance under medical services contracts that contains: (1) measurable performance standards to ensure desirable contract requirement outcomes including those related to quality and timeliness of care; and (2) standards for maintaining documentation related to the ratings in the QASP.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Create and implement strategies to leverage inmate healthcare utilization data that the OIG recommended to collect in 2016, which would enable the BOP to determine the cost effectiveness of alternative medical services contract structures.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Create and implement a uniform or universal billing review and approval process to: (1) ensure medical claims are properly supported and (2) improve timeliness of processing medical invoices.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Create and implement a timeline for utilizing the medical claims adjudication vendor contract awarded in December 2019 to process and ensure healthcare claims are accurate and complete
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Enhance its policies, procedures, training and communication, and/or internal controls for the requisition and government purchase card systems to better ensure that purchasing officials understand the C-SCRM requirements and so that applicable requisitions and purchase requests undergo C-SCRM procedures, as required; and develop policies, procedures, and/or internal controls to periodically monitor FBI compliance by identifying and remedying purchases that improperly bypassed the process.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    Ensure mitigation actions for ICT products, especially mission-critical ICT products or services, are descriptive, actionable, and tailored to the user environment and operational contexts (including its anonymity of procurement statement); and work with OCIO and the SCRM Unit to create and resource a continuous monitoring program that monitors C-SCRM risks across the FBI, ensures that users understand and follow C-SCRM mitigations identified in the product vulnerability and procurement risk assessments, and develops procedures to periodically monitor and assess user compliance with its C-SCRM mitigation actions.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    The FBI should clarify its policies regarding the approved methods for transmitting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other contraband to prosecutors and other government employees with a need to view the material in their official capacity.
  • Resolved
    Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
    Update the AHTF Program application guide with the revised performance measures and implement processes to assess the outcome of its AHTF Program performance measures.
  • Resolved
    Office of Community Oriented Policing Services
    Establish procedures to enhance the review process of progress reports to analyze the completeness, accuracy, and success of the AHTF Program.
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • On Hold/Pending with OIG
    Other Component
    [Description omitted; CSOSA has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Ensure that BOP staff delegated performance surveillance responsibilities complete required performance reporting tasks and maintain supporting documentation for the contractor's ratings.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Implement a reliable, consistent process throughout all BOP facilities to monitor wait times outside inmate appointments and the causes for cancelled or rescheduled appointments in order to ensure that inmates receive timely medical care.
  • Resolved
    Federal Bureau of Prisons
    Implement specific policies and procedures for reviewing billing submitted using Medicare-based rates, and that the BOP ensure that facilities utilize the third-party adjudication vendor.
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Drug Enforcement Administration
    [Description omitted; DOJ has determined that this recommendation contains information that is limited official use or classified.]
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    Ensure that Red Wind enhances its accounting system and the accounting policies and procedures to ensure that it maintains complete and accurate accounting records for the awards.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    Ensure Red Wind updates and enforces the BOD Bylaws.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $710
    Remedy $1,622 in unallowable expenditures related to staff travel costs.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $40,850
    Remedy $40,850 in unsupported contractor and subrecipient questioned costs.
  • Resolved
    Office on Violence Against Women
    $1,999
    Remedy $1,999 in unallowable other direct questioned costs.