Process for Continuing Invoice Payment for the Development Fund for Iraq Needs Attention

摘要

This letter addresses issues the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) identified about the effectiveness of the process established by U.S. agencies with the Ministry of Finance and other Ministries within the Government of Iraq (GOI) to facilitate payment of invoices for reconstruction contracts funded with the Development Fund for Iraq (DFI). Unless these issues are addressed these invoices may continue to go unpaid. About $32.3 million in DFI invoices remains unpaid, including $24.4 million owed to 11 U.S. contractors, more than 2 years after the invoices were submitted to the GOI.