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Authority audit finds billing and invoicing errors in Merced–Madera work; recommends stronger oversight
Summary
The authority’s chief auditor told the Audit & Finance Committee that a pre-award review and a contract compliance audit found miscalculated billing rates, overstated fees in an RFQ, and about $731,436 in questioned costs on the Stantec Merced–Madera contract; auditors recommended clearer subconsultant terms and expanded oversight.
The chief auditor reported to the California High-Speed Rail Authority Audit & Finance Committee on March 4 that audits of recent procurements and a contract with Stantec Consulting found mostly compliant billing but a set of accounting and administrative errors that the office recommended be corrected before final contract execution.
The auditor said the pre-award review of a request-for-qualifications for right-of-way engineering and surveying for the Merced–Bakersfield section revealed miscalculated loaded hourly billing rates and misstated proposed rates for the prime and several subconsultants. "The cost proposal had some miscalculated loaded hourly billing rates," the auditor said, and noted that fee proposals ranged from…
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