Reports

02.20.2020

Fiscal Year 2020 Department of Commerce Consolidated Financial Statements Audit

Our office contracted with KPMG LLP, an independent certified public accounting firm, to audit the Department's fiscal year 2020 consolidated financial statements.

02.11.2020

Audit of Enterprise Services Performance in Managing and Overseeing Accenture Blanket Purchase Agreement No. DOCSS130116BU0004 and Subsequent Call Orders

We are initiating an audit of Enterprise Services Acquisition Office's management and oversight of the Accenture Federal Services, LLC, blanket purchase agreement DOCSS130116BU0004 and subsequent call orders.

02.11.2020

Failures in the Department's Security Program Resulted in Exposure of Sensitive Trade Information to Unvetted Foreign Nationals

Attached is our final report on our audit of the Department of Commerce's (the Department's) Enterprise Web Solutions (EWS) system.

Report Number OIG-20-018-A

02.04.2020

Evaluation of Laptop Computers Used in the 2020 Census Address Canvassing Operation

We are initiating an evaluation of the U.S. Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) oversight of laptop computers used in the 2020 Census Address Canvassing operation.

01.31.2020

2020 Annual Letter to OMB re: Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012

The Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Charge Card Act) and OMB's implementing guidance require each office of inspector general (OIG) to perform annual risk assessments, as well as to submit semiannual reports to OMB, in coordination with the Department, of employee purchase or integrated card violations and the resulting actions taken.

Report Number OIG-20-017-M

01.30.2020

2020 Census: Some Decennial Census Data Quality Assurance Methods Were Not Tested or Did Not Work as Intended During the 2018 End-to-End Census Test

Attached for your review is our final audit report on the U.S. Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) 2018 End-to-End Census Test, with specific attention paid to the testing of peak operations.

Report Number OIG-20-016-A

01.30.2020

NTIA and FirstNet Should Improve Controls to Strengthen the Fee Collection Process

This final report provides the results of our audit regarding the management of fee payments from AT&T Inc. (AT&T) to the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet).

Report Number OIG-20-015-A

01.27.2020

EDA Should Develop a Workforce Plan and Improve its Hiring Accountability to Successfully Award and Administer the Disaster Supplemental Funds Appropriated by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018

Attached for your review is our final report on our audit of the Economic Development Administration's (EDA's) Disaster Relief Workforce Planning.

Report Number OIG-20-014-A

12.20.2019

Review of the Department's FY 2019 Compliance with Improper Payment Requirements

We are initiating a review to determine the Department's compliance with the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002, as amended by the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Act of 2010 and the Improper Payments Elimination and Recovery Improvement Act of 2012.

12.10.2019

IG Letter to NC Delegation re: the Census Bureau's Background Check and Hiring Process

Dear Representative Adams, Senator Burr, Representative Price, Representative Budd, and Representative Butterfield: This responds to your letter of May 31 , 2019, regarding the Census Bureau's (the Bureau's) background check and hiring process, in light of its employment of a registered sex offender at its Charlotte, North Carolina, Area Census Office (ACO).

Report Number OIG-20-012-M