Volpe Did Not Fully Comply with Federal Requirements When Planning and Administering Its V-TRIPS Contract
The Volpe National Transportation Center (Volpe) is a Federal, fee-for-service organization within the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). Each year, Volpe spends approximately $260 million to perform a wide range of transportation-related systems research and applications development for DOT and other Federal and non-Federal sponsors. In carrying out this mission, the Center uses Volpe’s Transportation Information Project Support (V-TRIPS) contract—a 5-year, $234-million, multi-award service contract—to provide information technology (IT) support services. This audit was initiated to determine whether Volpe (1) awarded the V-TRIPS contract under competitive procedures and provided each awardee fair opportunities for subsequent task orders and (2) administers and oversees the contract in accordance with Federal and DOT acquisition regulations. After the Office of Inspector General (OIG) began this audit, they were informed that Volpe intends to replace V-TRIPS with a follow-on contract and will issue the request for proposal by the end of 2014. As a result, OIG divided the audit of V-TRIPS into two phases to accelerate reporting of issues that Volpe can consider when awarding its follow-on contract. At a later date, a second report will be issued that focuses specifically on Volpe’s accounting practices for the V-TRIPS contract.
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Corporate Authors:
Department of Transportation
Office of Inspector General, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 - Publication Date: 2015-4-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 17p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Contract administration; Contractors; Information technology; Recommendations; Regulations
- Identifier Terms: John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Finance; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01563481
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: ZA-2015-040
- Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
- Created Date: May 18 2015 11:03AM