Audit Report: DoD Hotline Allegation of Irregularities in DoD Contractual Arrangements with the Department of Energy.

This is our final report on the Audit of DoD Hotline Allegation of Irregularities in DoD Contractual Arrangements with the Department of Energy. We made the audit from November 1988 through August 1989. The audit was made to determine the validity of a Hotline allegation that DoD activities were wasting Government funds by circumventing procurement regulations to acquire services and supplies through Department of Energy sponsored national laboratories. These services and supplies were obtained through the Department of Energys Work for Others Program. The services and supplies that the Department of Energy has provided through its Work for Others Program to outside organizations have grown rapidly from about 725 million in 1980 to about 2.6 billion in FY 1988. We estimate that approximately 80 percent of this work has been performed for DoD activities.