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The Administration of Contracts and Agreements for Linguistic Services by the Drug Enforcement Administration

Report No. 02-33
August 2002
Office of the Inspector General


APPENDIX II

SCHEDULE OF DOLLAR-RELATED FINDINGS

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QUESTIONED COSTS: AMOUNT14 PAGE
Unallowable Costs
Amount Paid for Personnel Not Authorized by the Agreements $269,476 16
Amount Paid for Excess Hours $63,083 16
Amount Paid for Travel Expenses Not Authorized by the Agreements $45,163 17
Amount Paid at Higher Hourly Rates than Allowed $7,295 18
Amount Paid for Awards Not Authorized by the Agreements $5,838 19
Amount Paid for Excess Administrative Costs Not Authorized by the Agreements $5,804 19
Amount Paid for Overtime Not Authorized by the Agreements $3,006 20
        Total Unallowable Costs $399,665  
Unsupported Costs
Amount Paid for Expenses Exceeding the Authorized Agreement Limits $111,842 15
Amount Paid for Services for which the [DELETED] Couldn't Provide Payroll Records $7,405 18
        Total Unsupported Costs $119,247  
TOTAL QUESTIONED COSTS $518,912  


Questioned Costs are expenditures that do not comply with legal, regulatory or contractual requirements, or are not supported by adequate documentation at the time of the audit, or are unnecessary or unreasonable. Questioned costs may be remedied by offset, waiver, recovery of funds, or the provision of supporting documentation.


Footnotes

  1. The questioned costs reported here were based on a sample of invoices reviewed for each category and are not projected to the total universe of invoices paid.

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