DOE IG: Certain National Security Campus Subcontracts Awarded Noncompetitively Without Justification

摘要

Several fiscal 2013 subcontracts at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) National SecurityrnCampus (NSC) in Kansas City, Mo., worth almost one-third of the total value of subcontracts reviewed by thernDepartment of Energy (DOE) Office of Inspector General (IG), were awarded noncompetitively without justification,rnaccording to an audit report released this week. The audit of DOE’s management and operating contractors inrnfiscal 2013, specifically at the NSC (previously called the Kansas City Plant), noted that the site “had a total ofrn18,026 subcontracts worth almost $241 million.” The IG audited 47 subcontracts worth $33.7 million and found thatrnalthough there were no “material issues with administration” of those subcontracts, eight of them worth $10.2rnmillion had been awarded “on a sole-source basis without specific justification.”