The Veterans Affairs Department used inaccurate milestones for several of its health care center construction projects and hasn’t properly tracked project costs, said Linda Halliday, VA assistant inspector general for audits and evaluations before a Nov. 20 House panel.
“VA needs better oversight, improved capital planning and stricter asset management to gain assurance that it can address construction and lease challenges more effectively,” Halliday said at the House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing.
As of August 2013, only four of seven leases that came under IG review for an Oct. 22 report (.pdf), had been awarded and no HCCs had been built, despite VA’s target completion date of June 2012, Halliday said in prepared testimony.
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