Identifying Number: 2022-003: U.S. Department of Education: Education Stabilization Fund: Student Aid Portion ? 84.425E (HEERF); U.S. Department of Agriculture: Child Nutrition Cluster ? 10.553, 10.555, and 10.559 (CNC) Finding: For one vendor paid with HEERF funding and one vendor paid from CNC funding, there was no documentation to support that the District had verified that the vendors were not suspended or debarred prior to purchases. Corrective Action Taken or Planned: This relates to the Entity Exclusion (Suspension/Debarment) list maintained on the federal SAM.GOV website. Access to the website and specifically the Entity search functions is limited to authorized/registered users. The corrective action plan for HEERF will include the designation of a Southeast Technical College employee with SAM.GOV access that will be the initial point of contact for vendor exclusion information for all Southeast Technical College employees. Additionally, the designated employee will periodically download, and post debarment lists to the Southeast Technical College internal website (myTech) that will be available to all employees purchasing goods/services that would be charged to federal programs. Additional corrective actions will include a review of existing Southeast Technical College procurement policies contained within Section D: Fiscal Management. Policies will be reviewed/revised to expand and reflect current federal procurement requirements under 2CRF200. Revised policies, debarment lists, and training will be provided to all employees on a periodic and ongoing basis. For the Child Nutrition Cluster, this particular vendor was not expected to go over $25,000 and was used for emergency purchases that did not go over $25,000 until the last purchase in June, 2022. It was recommended that all purchases with amounts expected to go over $25,000 be vetted through the District?s purchase order process. Since this vendor was not expected to go over $25,000, it did not go through the purchase order process. The District will continue to use the purchase order process for vendors expected to go over $25,000 to ensure debarment requirements are being followed. Contact person: HEERF: Rich Kluin, Vice President ? Finance and Operations, Southeast Technical College. CNC: Gay Anderson, Child Nutrition Supervisor. Status of finding ? HEERF procedures will continue to be followed. The CNC procedures will continue to be followed.