Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Update its policies and procedures to define how Ginnie Mae intends to identify and evaluate prospective buyers to ensure its ability to absorb the extinguished portfolio before executing the purchase and sale agreement.
Corrective Action Taken
Ginnie Mae updated its Rapid Relocation Extinguishment SOP to require an Impact Analysis Evaluation of each prospective buyer under the Rapid Relocation Extinguishment program. The…
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Assesses what information Ginnie Mae needs from the MSS to ensure that they have the capacity for a large- or multiple-issuer extinguishment.
Opportunities Exist for Ginnie Mae To Improve Its Guidance and Process for Troubled Issuers
Prescribes how the contracting officer representative will review information provided by the MSS and provide actionable feedback to ensure MSS readiness.
Ginnie Mae Mostly Implemented a Crisis Readiness Program That Followed Federal Guidance
Develop and implement an agencywide crisis readiness plan addressing likely hazards arising from a crisis. This guidance should include all key elements that meet CIGFO crisis guidance.
Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative to Improve Program Effectiveness
Develop and implement a plan to assist PHAs in improving voucher utilization, including providing additional guidance to PHAs to improve coordination between PHAs and PCWAs to improve voucher utilization and limit barriers to leasing.
Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative to Improve Program Effectiveness
Require PHAs to document that they informed FYI participants at program entry of their eligibility for supportive services and the availability of those services for the duration of the program.
Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative to Improve Program Effectiveness
For each youth referred, require PHAs to obtain PCWA certification that the PCWA will provide or secure access to supportive services.
Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative to Improve Program Effectiveness
Include FYI in its voucher risk assessment and develop and implement monitoring policies, procedures, and controls.
Opportunities Exist to Enhance Oversight of the Foster Youth to Independence Initiative to Improve Program Effectiveness
Establish and implement methods to regularly assess the effectiveness of the program in preventing and ending youth homelessness and improving participants’ self-sufficiency, which could include performance metrics and periodic studies performed by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer direct the contracting officers to review the current FSM contracts’ QASP and update accordingly to ensure that all minimum contract requirements are included.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer direct the contracting officers to oversee the implementation of the current FSM contracts’ QASP.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer require the contracting officers to implement the policies and procedures in the HUD
Acquisition Policy and Procedure Handbook for completion of HUD’s FSM contractor performance assessment reports in CPARS to ensure that Government past performance is documented properly and in a timely manner, at least annually, for use by all Federal agencies and maintained in the contract files.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer require all staff involved in the oversight of FSM contracts to maintain the required
documentation in the official contract file identified by HUD policy to support the contracts.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer update HUD’s field service manager contract monitoring plan and FSM qualitative monitoring databases used to monitor contractor performance to align with the QASP and contractual requirements as noted in recommendation 1G below.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Chief Procurement Officer require the contracting officers to formally designate CORs in a timely manner and maintain the required documentation in the proper location identified in the relevant HUD policies and procedures, which fully supports the CORs’ oversight of the FSM contract.
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing coordinate with OCPO to require that the contracting officers and CORs be involved in the development, implementation, and documentation of the FSM QASPs for their FSM contracts to ensure that performance statements, acceptable quality levels, and deviation percentages are aligned with the contracts’ requirements in the performance work statement, the performance…
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing coordinate with OCPO to require the contracting officers and CORs to monitor contractor performance to ensure that evidence is maintained and documented in the contract files for each performance statement completed in the FSM QASPs and that contractor quality control report deliverables resolve problems identified by the Government during reviews conducted in…
HUD Could Improve Its Field Service Management Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans
We recommend that the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Single Family Housing require the CORs to ensure that contractor past performance evaluations are prepared at least annually and as required by HUD policy to ensure that reporting of contractors is completed properly and in a timely manner for contract options and in CPARS.
HUD Program Offices' Policies and Approaches for Radon
Develop and implement an effective radon policy to ensure that CPD program activities comply with the departmentwide policy on radon testing and mitigation requirements.
HUD's Oversight of CDBG-DR Grantees' Use of Program Income
We recommend that the Director for HUD’s Office of Disaster Recovery require grantees to support or repay to its program $2,551,375, from nonfederal funds, for the 9 vouchers that did not have adequate supporting documentation for expenditures.