Audit of USAID's Governmentwide Commercial Purchase Card Program Audit Report Number 9-000-02-004-P

Audit of USAID's Governmentwide Commercial Purchase Card Program Audit Report Number 9-000-02-004-P March 19, 2002 Washington, D.C. GENCY FORU.S. AINTERNATIONALDEVELOPMENTOffice of Inspector General March 19, 2002 MEMORANDUM FOR: Office of Procurement Director, Mark S. Ward Acting Chief Financial Officer, Elmer S. Owens FROM: IG/A/PA Director, Dianne L. Rawl /s/ SUBJECT: Audit of USAID’s Governmentwide Commercial Purchase Card Program (Report No. 9-000-02-004-P) This is our final report on the subject audit. In finalizing the report, we considered your formal response to the draft report, as well as two subsequent emails, all of which are included in Appendix II. This report contains ten recommendations. Recommendation Nos. 1 through 3 are to take actions that could result in annual management efficiencies estimated at approximately $1.3 million by expanding the use of purchase cards and increasing the amount of purchase card rebates. In your comments, you agreed to implement most of those actions, but did not concur with our estimated savings amounts. For recommendations dealing with efficiencies, a management decision cannot be reached until management and the OIG agree on the amount of estimated savings. Consequently, we do not consider a management decision to have been reached for any of the three recommendations. Please provide within 30 days any additional information related to actions planned or taken to implement these ...