Message from the Deputy Inspector General
I am pleased to submit to Congress our Semiannual Report for the period of April 1, 2025, through September 30, 2025.
During this reporting period, the General Services Administration (GSA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued 27 reports, including 18 contract audit reports, with more than $274 million in financial recommendations for potential cost savings and recoveries for the federal government. Additionally, our work yielded more than $40.3 million in monetary recoveries.
Our auditors issued a report that found the Public Buildings Service had grossly mismanaged the battery systems at the Glenn M. Anderson Federal Building and the Ronald Reagan Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse resulting in health and safety issues, including a battery explosion, hazardous material leaks, an injury, and a battery fire. Our auditors also issued an alert memorandum concerning GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service’s decision to expand the Transactional Data Reporting Rule across the entire Multiple Award Schedule program despite persistent data and pricing issues. Additionally, we issued an alert memorandum to the Acting GSA Administrator regarding a security concern that warranted immediate attention after auditors found documents containing sensitive information accessible to all GSA Google Drive users, including those without a legitimate business need to know. In another alert memorandum, we informed the Public Buildings Service Commissioner that numerous contractor and subcontractor employees who worked on the San Luis I Land Port of Entry Expansion and Modernization Project had either failed or not undergone required security screening.
Our special agents continued rooting out complex procurement fraud schemes. One case revealed a scheme by competing owners of fuel truck supply companies to rig bids, allocate territories, and commit wire fraud over an 8-year period related to fuel truck contracts that assist the U.S. Forest Service’s efforts to battle wildfires in Idaho and the Mountain West. Another investigation found that two employees of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Mountain Home, Tennessee, accepted cash bribes from surgical sales representatives that enabled the representatives to overbill the medical center. An additional investigation uncovered a scheme to fraudulently obtain Small Business Administration HUBZone set-aside contracts valued at $4.7 million.
Our office continued its work with the Department of Justice on False Claims Act cases. One case resulted in a company paying a $14.75 million settlement to resolve allegations that it had violated the False Claims Act in connection with a GSA contract for information technology services. Another case resulted in a company agreeing to a $9.58 million settlement to resolve allegations of overcharging federal agencies for energy improvements in connection with 29 federally funded energy savings performance contracts.
Without the hard work of our staff seeking to combat waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars on a daily basis, these efforts would not have been possible. I am honored to lead this office and thankful for Congress’s and GSA management’s continued support of our work.
Robert C. Erickson
Deputy Inspector General
November 26, 2025
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