Energy Management: DOE Needs to Better Implement Conflict-of-Interest Controls

摘要

The Department of Energy (DOE) has 22 federally funded research and developmentcenters that are managed and operated by private corporations and universities under contracts with DOE. In fiscal year 1989, these research center contractors spent about $7.8 billion of DOE's funds awarding about $3.2 billion of this total to subcontractors. Concerned about the potential for conflicts of interest in subcontracts and about DOE's safeguards to prevent such conflicts, the Chairman. Subcommittee on Federal Services, Post Office and Civil Service, Senate Committee on Government Affairs, requested that GAO review the adequacy of (1) DOE's policies and procedures for identifying and avoiding conflicts of interest in subcontracts, (2) the implementation of these policies and procedures by DOE's field offices and research center contractors, and (3) DOE's oversight of the implementation of these policies and procedures.