2025-002 Finding – Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA)/Transparency Act Reporting (Timeliness) Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Program: Head Start Cluster – Assistance Listing 93.600 (Head Start) Compliance Requirement: Reporting (L) – FFATA...
2025-002 Finding – Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA)/Transparency Act Reporting (Timeliness) Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Program: Head Start Cluster – Assistance Listing 93.600 (Head Start) Compliance Requirement: Reporting (L) – FFATA/Transparency Act Special Reporting Type of Finding: Compliance (no internal control deficiency) Finding Summary: Two first-tier subaward actions were submitted in SAM.gov after the required reporting timeframe. Based on the nature of the exceptions and the results of expanded procedures, the late submissions appear to be isolated to the period of the federal FSRS-to-SAM.gov transition rather than indicative of a systemic reporting breakdown. Management attributed the delays to federal system conversion issues, including access/role challenges, delayed training, and data migration/report rejection issues that required resolution with SAM.gov support. Accordingly, the noncompliance is limited to timeliness of transparency reporting (no questioned costs) and does not affect allowability of Head Start expenditures. Corrective Action Plan: Delays were primarily attributable to the federal transition from FSRS to SAM.gov, including access/role configuration challenges and system-related issues encountered during the conversion period. Reasonable and timely steps were taken to submit the required FFATA reports as soon as the federal system issues were resolved and to address any submission rejections or support requests as needed. Now that the filing of back logged reports is complete, we will continue with our existing FFATA reporting procedures. We will track contracts needing FFATA submission with an internal ticketing system to ensure that the filings are on time. We will retain appropriate documentation of submissions and related system communications to support compliance. We will submit said documentation to our business office as a secondary measure to ensure that the filing was done prior to processing said contract. Contact Person responsible for corrective action: Anthony Jordan, Division Director Anticipated completion date of Corrective Action Plan: This item is corrected as of 10/01/2025.