Acquisition: Buy American Act Issues on Procurements of Military Clothing.

摘要

We conducted the audit in response to a tasking in the House Committee on Armed Services Report on the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2001. The Committee Report expressed concern over the number of violations of the Buy American Act identified in Inspector General, DoD, Report No. 99-023, Procurement of Military Clothing and Related Items by Military Organizations, October 29, 1998. Of the 256 contracts reviewed 151 (59 percent) did not include the appropriate contract clause. The Committee tasked the Inspector General to conduct a followup audit to evaluate compliance with the Buy American Act for procurements of military clothing and related items by military installations during FYs 1998 and 1999 and to evaluate the actions taken after the 1998 audit to improve compliance with the Buy American Act. During FYs 1998 and 1999, 144 military installations made at least 3,875 procurements of military clothing and related items valued at $1.16 billion. This report discusses 698 of the procurements, valued at $136.7 million, by 65 military installations. The report does not discuss procurements by the Defense Supply Center Philadelphia, a Defense Logistics Agency field unit that procures about $1 billion of military clothing and related items annually.