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Learning from Missouri's M/WBE audit

By Alison Jimenez

Here is what the Office of the State Auditor of Missouri found when it took a look at the state's MBE and WMBE programs: 1) Some results overstated by the Office of Administration  OA's reporting of its program results was not entirely accurate.  Auditors found OA's D&C personnel overstated MBE/WBE accomplishments on three projects by about $2 million when they reported accomplishments from contract requirements, and not results achieved. On a $5.4 million project, the WBE subcontractor only completed $600,000 of its $1.2 million portion of the project, but program results reflected $1.2 million.  Auditors also found D&C personnel counted minority, woman-owned subcontractors as both MBE and WBE.  In addition, D&C's results included work completed by non-certified MBE/WBEs...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tanjeble on July 16, 2008 (boomark / email).