Assess whether a subrecipient should be suspended from budget justification

SITUATION An emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources has budget justification vs. actual execution last year in hand following an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option. IG response coordinator must determine whether a subrecipient should be suspended for this Government Budget and Performance file.

DECISION IG response coordinator in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources must choose Pay or continue, Recoup, Deny, Hold using budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option. The question on that file is whether a subrecipient should be suspended.

HYPOTHESES TO TEST 1. IG response coordinator can defend Pay or continue from budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option in a Government challenge. 2. IG response coordinator cannot defend Pay or continue from budget justification vs. actual execution last year; Recoup is what the extract actually supports after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option. 3. An OIRA passback gutting the preferred option never reached the population in budget justification vs. actual execution last year — reopen intake, do not close a subrecipient should be suspended. 4. Two facts in budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option conflict for IG response coordinator; hold this Budget and Performance file.

ANALYSIS REQUIRED 1. Name the statutory hook that budget justification vs. actual execution last year does or does not support. 2. Test a single-case exception versus a control gap in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources. 3. Check notice and appeal timing around an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option. 4. For this Government Budget and Performance file, read budget justification vs. actual execution last year against an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option and write the one fact that would move a subrecipient should be suspended for IG response coordinator.

RECOMMENDATION Choose Pay or continue / Recoup / Deny / Hold on this Government / Budget and Performance packet (budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option) — specific to budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option on this Government Budget and Performance file for IG response coordinator in an emergency-management shop allocating scarce resources. If budget justification vs. actual execution last year cannot force a Government label under Budget and Performance, stop. If budget justification vs. actual execution last year after an OIRA passback gutting the preferred option cannot support Pay or continue versus Recoup on this Government Budget and Performance close, IG response coordinator must do not pay, recoup, or deny beyond the eligibility record.