Improved Controls Are Needed to Account for the Issuance and Return of Contractor Employee Laptop Computers

The Chief Procurement Officer should strengthen management oversight by updating appropriate checklists (or the appropriate contract administration process) and conduct training to provide reasonable assurance that barcodes are documented in contract administration documentation for the issuance of laptop computers to contractor employees and the return of laptop computers from contractor employees.

The Chief Procurement Officer should work with Information Technology (IT) User and Network Services and the IRS business units to develop a process to review and compare contract administration documentation to computer inventory records to provide reasonable assurance that barcodes are documented correctly in contract administration files for the issuance and return of laptop computers to contractor employees.