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“Treasury and OMB should regularly decide which agencies and agency parts must post covered spending data, and Treasury should publish that list and notify each listed agency leader and inspector general.”
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“Treasury and OMB should set standards for complete, accurate, and consistent spending data; agency leaders should make sure their posted data meets those standards; and Treasury and OMB should be able to check the data.”
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“GAO should have 1 year to recommend whether a federal contracting clause should be updated so contracts better reflect federal spending transparency law.”
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“Other transaction agreements, often used for research, technology, or prototype work, should count as federal awards that agencies must report for public spending transparency.”
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“Federal agencies and Treasury should treat other transaction agreements as reportable federal awards, send that data automatically to USAspending.gov within 3 years, show it in one central view, and post a public list or send Congress a completion plan if the system falls behind.”
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“Treasury should publicly report each year how much federal award spending is not shown on USAspending.gov and explain whether the missing data is tied to classified or national security spending, Congress or court awards, or lower-level subawards.”
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“Treasury, with OMB, should set a standard way to display federal spending information, and agencies that post spending data should show it in that format so people can compare it across agencies.”
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“Agencies that post covered federal spending information should have to follow Treasury standards for how that information appears on USAspending.gov.”
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