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GAO-04-57R 1 (2003-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaamia0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 October 6, 2003 The Honorable Henry A. Waxman Ranking Minority Member Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives The Honorable Danny K. Davis Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Civil Service and Agency Organization Committee on Government Reform House of Representatives Subject: U.S. Postal Service: Status of Inspector General's Recommendations on the Supplier Diversity Program This report supplements our previous report to you responding to your request for current information on the representation of minorities and women at the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).' USPS's program to attract and award contracts to small, minority, and women-owned businesses is referred to as supplier diversity. In recent years, the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) has questioned the reliability of data related to the Supplier Diversity Program, such as the dollar value of contracts awarded to small, minority, and women-owned businesses. In a September 2001 report, the OIG made nine recommendations that it said would improve the reliability of this data. As agreed with your offices, our objective was to determine the status of USPS efforts to address the recommendations contained in the OIG report. To address our objective, we obtained, reviewed, and analyzed documentation from USPS and interviewed USPS and OIG officials concerning the status of these recommendations. Results in Brief USPS has addressed the nine OIG recommendations. According to USPS officials, they have taken actions to implement the OIG's nine recommendations, and they consider the recommendations closed. USPS believes that the actions taken have addressed the OIG's concerns and have strengthened the reliability of data related to its Supplier Diversity Program. The OIG agreed that its recommendations have been implemented and, as a result, it also believes that the reliability of USPS supplier diversity data has improved. Furthermore, USPS provided us with documents 1See U.S. Postal Service: Data on Career Employee Diversity, GAO-03-745R (Washington, D.C.: Sept. 15, 2003). GAO-04-57R Postal Service Supplier Diversity Program

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