VA IG fails finance system

August 26, 2004

	The Veterans Affairs Department should stop work on its troubled new financial management system until the agency decides whether CoreFLS can be salvaged, a report from VA's Office of the Inspector General said.

The Veterans Affairs Department should stop work on its troubled new financial management system until the agency decides whether CoreFLS can be salvaged, a report from VA's Office of the Inspector General said.

The report criticized VA for inadequate oversight of the $472 million contract, of which VA to date has committed $249 million.

VA noncompetitively awarded BearingPoint Inc., McLean, Va., 22 task orders, accepting them without independent evaluation of need, an action the inspector general called "tantamount to issuing BearingPoint a blank check."

Transfer of inaccurate data from VA's legacy systems to CoreFLS has interrupted patient care and medical center operations, a problem the report said "may be a systemic problem throughout the Veterans Health Administration."

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&#009;The Veterans Affairs Department should stop work on its troubled new financial management system until the agency decides whether CoreFLS can be salvaged, a report from VA's Office of the Inspector General said.

The Veterans Affairs Department should stop work on its troubled new financial management system until the agency decides whether CoreFLS can be salvaged, a report from VA's Office of the Inspector General said.