VA acquisition management: comprehensive supply chain management strategy key to address existing challenges : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives

VA acquisition management: comprehensive supply chain management strategy key to address existing challenges : testimony before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives

Collection:
Health Policy and Services Research
Contributor(s):
United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, issuing body.
Publication:
Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, March 24, 2021
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
COVID-19 -- economics
Equipment and Supplies -- supply & distribution
Government Regulation
United States
United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Genre(s):
Technical Report
Abstract:
Why GAO did this study. In fiscal year 2020, VA received about $19.6 billion in supplemental appropriations for COVID-19-related needs and through February 2021 has spent about $1.1 billion on medical supplies and equipment. GAO testified in June 2020 and September 2020 that VA faced supply chain challenges, particularly in the early stages of the pandemic. Due in part to long-standing supply chain management issues that predated the pandemic, GAO added VA acquisition management to its High-Risk List in 2019. GAO’s March 2021 High-Risk Update reported that VA has made limited progress in addressing its acquisition management challenges. This statement discusses VA’s progress toward modernizing its supply chain. This statement is largely based on information from six reports issued from 2017-2020 and observations from an ongoing review of VA’s COVID-19 procurements. To perform this work, GAO reviewed VA documentation and interviewed VA officials and medical center staff. What GAO recommends. GAO has made 48 recommendations since 2015 to improve acquisition management at VA. VA agreed with those recommendations and has implemented 22 of them. In this statement, GAO is recommending that VA develop a comprehensive supply chain management strategy that, among other things, outlines how its various supply chain initiatives relate to each other.
Copyright:
The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
Extent:
1 online resource (1 PDF file (11 pages))
Illustrations:
Illustrations
NLM Unique ID:
9918317785606676 (See catalog record)
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918317785606676