Performance Audit Plan Announced

Over the next four years, only two performance audits to be conducted by the Washington State Auditor's Office will focus on contracting and procurement issues:

• Results of Federal Economic Stimulus Funding
• Opportunities to Improve State Procurement

Absent from the list of 30 identified performance audits in the auditor's work plan for 2010 to 2013 are audits of construction management practices of public agencies that the auditor has focused on it the past.

Most memorably, the auditor issued a scathing report of the construction management and contracting practices of the Port of Seattle in December 2007.