“The Government Accountability Office (GAO) wrote to Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie on March 28 to update the agency on the implementation status of GAO’s prior IT management recommendations for the VA, and prodded VA to take action on benefits management system issues and data center optimization goals…”
“In adding VA acquisition management this year, GAO said it identified “seven contracting challenges for VA, such as outdated acquisition regulations and policies, lack of an effective medical supplies procurement strategy, and inadequate acquisition training.”
“The report released this week recaps VA’s risk management and healthcare improvement issues that problems that GAO has identified, which include…” Read the full article here.
Source: GAO Prods VA on IT System Issues, Data Center Closures – April 8, 2019. MeriTalk.
