Audit of Peace Corps/OCIO Budget Formulation and Management

We recommend that the Chief Information Officer establish procedures to ensure the obligations are properly assigned to the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s operations and maintenance account and the information technology centrally managed account based on the account definitions.

We recommend that the Chief Financial Officer establish standard operating procedures concerning the preparation and submission of the requests for agency resources. Specifically, the guidance must describe which costs to include, establish what documentation is necessary to support the cost estimates, and require information review board approval for requests related to information technology.

We recommend that the Chief Information Officer, in conjunction with the Chief Financial Officer, review the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s recent requests for agency resources to determine whether any the costs should be included in the operating budget to mitigate the risk that essential information technology activities are not funded in a timely manner.

We recommend that the Chief Acquisition Officer review the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s procedures for providing technical oversight and provide instruction for the its contracting officer’s technical representatives when managing large information technology contracts.

We recommend that the Chief Acquisition Officer request an audit of the August 2006 Office ofChief Information Officer contract for information technology services.