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Internal audit reports identify $776,000 in overbilled costs on HNTB contract; office to seek external peer review every three years
Summary
Paula Rivera, head of the authority’s internal audit office, reported an incurred-cost audit of HNTB that identified $776,000 in overbilled or overreimbursed costs and previewed a full-board item proposing an external peer review every three years under revised audit standards.
Paula Rivera, head of the authority’s internal audit office, presented three items to the Finance and Audit Committee on Oct. 9: an incurred-cost audit of the authority’s design-services contract with HNTB for the Bakersfield extension (locally generated alternative), a pre-award review for a right-of-way engineering contract and a preview of a full-board agenda item proposing an external peer review schedule for the audit office.
On the incurred-cost audit, Rivera said the audit covered the period Sept. 1, 2022, through Oct. 30, 2024. She…
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