On May 22, 2023, the DoD OIG announced the “Audit of the DoD’s Efforts to Build Partner Capacity in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Area of Responsibility.” The objective of the audit is to determine whether the DoD established program objectives, met performance metrics, developed an assessment framework, and met congressional reporting requirements for the effective execution of building partner capacity activities within the USINDOPACOM area of responsibility in accordance with laws and DoD regulations.
During the audit we determined that performance evaluations were not completed for contractors supporting the security cooperation assessment, monitoring, and evaluation (AM&E) program in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 42.15.This management advisory focuses on the DoD’s noncompliance with the FAR requirement for recording and maintaining contractor performance information. Specifically, we determined that the Washington Headquarters Services (WHS) contracting officer for the Management Systems International, Inc. (MSI, Inc.) and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) contracts did not complete contractor performance evaluations within the 120-day reporting requirement for the 5 periods of performance for the MSI, Inc. contract and the 12 periods of performance for the two SAIC contracts.