“To require the Inspector General to submit a report on the Federal subaward reporting system, and for other purposes.”
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This section requires the Inspector General of the General Services Administration (GSA) to submit to Congress, within 180 days of enactment, a report reviewing the FFATA subaward reporting system (i.e., the system established under the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 to publicly report first-tier subawards of federal awards exceeding $25,000), assessing its effectiveness on accuracy, completeness, consistency, burden, accessibility, and enforcement, and providing recommendations for improvements. This section further directs the GSA Administrator, in consultation with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director and the Treasury Secretary, to submit to Congress, within 1 year of enactment and annually thereafter until fully implemented, a plan to improve first-tier subaward reporting that includes (1) measures to enhance data accuracy and completeness, (2) standardized requirements across agencies including certification by prime recipients of no subawards, (3) burden reduction for recipients, (4) increased public accessibility, and (5) stronger enforcement. This section additionally requires the GSA Administrator, in consultation with the OMB Director, to issue rules and submit to Congress, within 1 year of enactment and annually thereafter until fully implemented, a stakeholder-informed plan to expand reporting to the first two tiers of subawards (including final recipients) with similar improvement measures; requires agency heads to begin collecting two-tier data within 1 year of the first plan's submission and fully implementing the expansion plan within 2 years of enactment.