The State Auditor’s Office (SAO) has released its audit report of the Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) procedures for major contract and grant procurements. The audit was prepared in response to a request from the Office of the Governor earlier this year in April and is part of an ongoing review of HHSC’s contract management processes. The SAO tested 28 procurements and generally found that HHSC did not establish the controls necessary to ensure that its evaluation processes to review and score vendor proposals provided reliable, accurate, and complete information. 5 of these procurements, with an estimated value of $3.4 billion, were found to have significant evaluation scoring errors and missing documentation. As a result, auditors could not determine whether the scores supporting the award recommendations were accurate. For the remaining 23 procurements, with an estimated value of $1.2 billion, auditors also found errors, but did not find a significant effect on award recommendations.
For more information, please see the full SAO audit report here.