Status of Open Recommendations:

Improving Operations of Federal Departments and Agencies

GAO/OP-96-1 [Available only in PDF version]

GAO - United States General Accounting Office

Special Publications and Software

Each year, GAO's work contributes to many legislative and executive branch actions that yield significant financial savings and other improvements in government operations. Some, but not all, are identified through GAO's system for periodically following up to determine the status of actions taken on the recommendations made in GAO reports. About three out of four recommendations made during the past five years have been implemented. This report highlights the impact of GAO's work on various issue areas and summarizes key open recommendations.

Prior to 1993, this report was published in four volumes at an estimated cost of $60,000 with printing and postage being a large part of the price tag.  To make this information more accessible and to cut costs, the GAO decided to publish an electronic version of the Status of Open Recommendations.  The search for a low-cost, efficient way to distribute information lead the GAO to select and license askSam, the free-form database, already used by GAO auditors to collect information worldwide.

Status of Open Recommendations (Electronic Version 5.0)

GAO/OP-96-1E  

This electronic edition contains the details for GAO's open recommendations. This PC-based

software lets you use several text search and retrieval options to find either summaries of  key open recommendations or the details of open recommendations using the askSam search engine.