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GAO Reports and Decisions

by Mary S. Searles on 2023-02-01T10:37:00-05:00 | 0 Comments

HeinOnline has added a ton of new content this month bringing the total number of pages in the database to 205,318,256. Included in the new content are reports from GAO - the U.S. Government Accountability Office. GAO is the "congressional watchdog" and is an independent, non-partisan agency that examines how taxpayer dollars are spent. HeinOnline's GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions database contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs. New reports in January include an examination of abuse and neglect reporting requirements in hospice care, affordable broadband, fraud in the federal government, veteran's health care, and more. 

Not all GAO reports are public, some are restricted because they contain classified information or controlled unclassified information, but the GAO has a list by fiscal year of restricted reports available on their website. For example, in fiscal year 2023, the GAO prepared restricted reports on the Capitol attack on January 5, 2021, Guantanamo Bay, nuclear material security and others. According to the GAO website, members of the public can file a Freedom of Information Act request to gain access to a restricted report. 

Also included in HeinOnline are GAO decisions on bid protests. A bid protest is a challenge to the terms of a solicitation or the award of a federal contract and the GAO resolves those challenges to the procurement process.  

HeinOnline is available at the New Hampshire Law Library on our public access computers. The GAO website is at gao.gov.


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