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CED-81-106 1 (1981-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbyq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 ~~UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE //.3 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-203364 MAY 27, 1981 The Honorable Tom Bevill Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: 115338 Subject: Information on the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission's Master Plan Contracting Procedures (CED-81-106) This report responds to your request of February 3, 1981, concerning contracts awarded by the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission. The contracts involve preparing a comprehensive master plan for the management of the Upper Mississippi River System called for by Public Law 95-502, approved October 21, 1978 (92 Stat. 1693). We agreed to provide information on the following questions: --Were any of the contracts awarded to groups or individuals who have a conflict of interest? --Were the groups and individuals who were awarded contracts qualified to perform the work? --Have the funds been expended in a manner consistent with the provisions of Public Law 95-502? To obtain the requested information, we reviewed 10 selected contracts totaling about $1.7 million, or about 30 percent of the $5.6 million obligated for the master plan studies. We selected contracts for review primarily on the basis of criticisms voiced by various interest groups. Proposals, contracting procedures, bidder lists, awardees' qualifications, and correspondence files were reviewed. We also examined the organizational structure of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission, as well as its plan of study; task descriptions; resolutions; and the preliminary master plan. We interviewed Commission personnel key to the award of the contracts as well as navigation, railroad, and environmental proponents who criticized some of the awards. Time limits prevented us from thoroughly analyzing any contract or even making a cursory examination of all of the approximately 100 contracts awarded. (085621)

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