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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20348
RELEASED
FEB 4 1976
The Honorable Alan Cranston
Chairman, Subcommittee on
Health and Hospitals
]-ommittee on Veterans' Affairs 2,
/United States Senate
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This report, our second and final report pursuant to your
request of August 24, 1973, concerns Veterans Administration ) '
(VA) contracts awarded to Big 4 Construction Company for medi- P.3o
,Zcal research trailer construction at VA's Brentwood Hospital
/in Los Angeles, California. You expressed interest in finding
out whether VA knew of alleged poor job management by Big 4
when granting time extensions on Big 4's trailer contracts;
the effect at Brentwood of Big 4 working concurrently on
other VA contracts; the effect delays had on Brentwood's medi-
cal research program; and the additional money VA spent to
provide alternative medical research space, because of delays
in completing the trailers.
Enclosure I looks at these four areas as well as VA's
improper use of operating fund appropriations to partially
finance the research trailer construction. Briefly, we found:
--VA may not have been fully aware of any poor job man-
agement by Big 4 when VA approved an initial 37-day
time extension; however, VA rejected four additional
time extension requests, totaling 133 days, because of
poor job management by Big 4.
--Big 4 was working concurrently on three other VA con-
tracts, which may have contributed to Big 4's delays
at Brentwood.
MWD-76-68
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