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GAO-20-542PR 1 (2020-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaebbh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: c AO U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States April 27, 2020 The Honorable Russell Vought Acting Director The Honorable Michael Rigas Acting Deputy Director for Management Office of Management and Budget 725 17th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20503 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Management and Budget Dear Mr. Vought and Mr. Rigas: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to critical open recommendations that should be given high priority.1 In November 2019, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 77 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 OMB's recommendation implementation rate was 52 percent. As of April 2020, OMB had 152 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could yield significant savings and other improvements in executive branch agency operations. Since our last letter on OMB's 31 open priority recommendations in April 2019, OMB has implemented six of the priority recommendations. * Guidance developed by OMB and the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, in June 2018 and July 2019 respectively, implemented two priority recommendations that could help reduce improper payments across the federal government. * OMB has engaged in several efforts to better target administrative requirements for research grants to universities by focusing on the areas of greatest risk for improper use of research funds. For example, it has undertaken broad efforts to reduce the administrative burden for grant funding by applying a risk-based framework. OMB has also provided flexibilities to research grant recipients by granting an exception in June 2018 to use higher purchase thresholds. For example, the threshold for micro-purchases increased from $3,500 to $10,000. * OMB implemented two priority recommendations by including land mobile radio equipment in its category management initiative in 2019. This should allow the federal 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report.- Fiscal Year 2019, GAO-20-1 SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 19, 2019). GAO-20-542PR OMB Priority Open Recommendations Page 1

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