ANA Garrison at Kunduz Does Not Meet All Quality and Oversight Requirements; Serious Soil Issues Need to be Addressed

摘要

One objective of coalition efforts in Afghanistan is to build the country's capacity to provide for its own security by training and equipping the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Current plans call for the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) to grow from 103,475, as of June 2009, to almost 172,000 by October 2011. As a result, additional facilities will be needed to train, base, and house the Afghan forces. The NATO Training Mission- Afghanistan/Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (NTM-A/CSTC-A), through the Afghanistan National Security Forces Fund, is providing $72.8 million to establish an ANA garrison in Kunduz, located in Kunduz province on Afghanistan's northern border. Large enough to house 1,800 personnel, the garrison is being built in two phases by DynCorp International, LLC. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Afghanistan Engineer District-North (AED-North) provides program management and oversight of construction. This report addresses the contracts' cost, schedule, and outcome; oversight; and the sustainment of the Kunduz garrison. We examined criteria and guidance in the Federal Acquisitions Regulations (FAR) and the AED District Level Quality Assurance Plan for Construction, dated December 15, 2008. We interviewed officials from NTM-A/CSTC-A and AED-North, as well as the prime contractor. We performed a site inspection of the garrison from January 26-28, 2010. We conducted our work in Kabul, Afghanistan, and Washington, D.C., from November 2009 to April 2010 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards.