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Disaster Contracting: Opportunities Exist for FEMA to Improve Oversight

GAO-25-107136
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5 Open Recommendations
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should ensure its Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer uses the results of the contracting job series staffing model to help inform long-term workforce planning, to include staff retention. (Recommendation 7)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should ensure that its Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer trains contract oversight staff (including contracting officers, CORs, and program office staff) on DHS and FEMA requirements for technical monitors to have the appropriate level of COR certification and the appropriate authorizations to serve on contracts. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should ensure that its Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer reiterates to contracting officers and CORs, such as through a memorandum or training, the preference for and purpose of implementing performance-based acquisition methods for service contracts. (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should ensure that its Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer take steps to identify who within the agency is performing contract oversight duties on active contracts, and ensure that those individuals have the proper COR certification and contracting officer authorization. (Recommendation 4)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should ensure that its Office of the Chief Component Procurement Officer reiterates to CORs, such as through a memorandum or training, the COR's role in documenting oversight activities taken to ensure contractor performance on service contracts. (Recommendation 2)
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Wildfires: Additional Actions Needed to Address FEMA Assistance Challenges

GAO-25-106862
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4 Open Recommendations
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should document its position on approving FMAG declarations for fires burning on federal land but threatening nearby communities in the FMAG Program and Policy Guide. (Recommendation 4)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should assess ways to provide assistance for immediate post-wildfire mitigation and take steps to provide such assistance. If FEMA determines it needs additional authorities, it should develop a legislative proposal for implementing the proposed change(s). (Recommendation 1)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should establish a formal process to regularly collect and assess nationwide feedback from state, local, and tribal FMAG recipients and incorporate such feedback into program policy, as appropriate. (Recommendation 3)
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Federal Emergency Management Agency The FEMA Administrator should amend the FMAG regulations to provide tribal governments the option to request FMAG declarations directly from FEMA. (Recommendation 6)
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