S. 1616 — what changed

changed Establishment—Strategy— The Administrator Not later than 180 days after the date of General Services shall establish an the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Federal Charge Card Analytics Management and Review Budget, in consultation with the Administrator for improving General Services, shall develop a strategy to expand the use and oversight of data analytics in managing government purchase and travel charge card transactions by Federal agencies programs. These analytics may employ existing General Services Administration capabilities, and programs, including may be in conjunction with agencies’ capabilities, for the general purposes purpose of—

changed identifying, preventing, and recovering improper payments (including fraud), and identifying and preventing other inappropriate use examples or patterns of purchase questionable transactions and travel cards that do not conform with Federal or developing enhanced tools and methods for agency purchase laws, policies, rules, or best practices; anduse in—

changed determining identifying potential opportunities for agencies to further leverage administrative process streamlining and cost reduction from purchase and travel card use, including additional agency opportunities for card-based strategic sourcing.sourcing;

changed In general— Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Administrator of General Services and agency heads, and the interagency task force charge card data management group established under section 5, shall issue guidance on improving information sharing by government agencies (including inspectors general) for the purposes of section 3(a)(1).

changed require relevant officials at Federal agencies to identify high-risk merchants activities and communicate that information to the appropriate level of administration management levels within the agencies;

changed ensure require that appropriate officials at Federal agencies review the reports issued by charge card-issuing contractors of potential fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate activity, including the suspension of banks on questionable transaction activity (such as purchase and travel card accounts, travel card activity outside of the official government travel location, pre-suspension and suspension reports, delinquency reports, and exception reports), including transactions that occur with high risk merchant, activities, and suspicious levels timing or amounts of cash withdrawals;withdrawals or advances;

changed provide for the appropriate sharing of information related to potential fraudulent questionable transactions, fraud schemes, and high risk merchants activities with the General Services Administration Office of Federal Charge Card Analytics and Review established under section 3 Management and the appropriate officials in Federal agencies; and

changed include other requirements determined appropriate by the Director for the purposes of carrying out this Act.

changed Establishment— The Administrator of General Services and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall establish a purchase and co-chair an interagency task force travel charge card data management group to develop and share best practices for the purposes described in section 3(a).

changed cover rules, edits, and task order or contract modifications related to charge card-issuing contractors;banks;

changed include the review of accounts payable information and purchase and travel card transaction data of all Federal agencies for the purpose of determining identifying potential strategic sourcing opportunities; and other additional opportunities (such as recurring payments, utility payments, and grant payments) for which the charge cards or related payment products could be used as a payment method; and

changed Meetings—Membership— The interagency task force purchase and travel charge card data management group shall meet regularly as determined by the co-chairs, for a duration of three years, and include those agencies as described in section 2 of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–194) and others identified by the co-chairs.Administrator and Director.

changed General services administration Services Administration report— Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Administrator for General Services shall submit a report to Congress on the implementation of this Act, including the metrics used in determining whether the analytic and investigatory benchmarking efforts have reduced, or contributed to the reduction of, questionable or improper payments or as well as improved strategic sourcing.utilization of card-based payment products.

changed Agency reports—reports and consolidated report to Congress— Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the head of each Federal agency described in section 2 of the Government Charge Card Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–194) shall submit a report to Congress the Director of the Office of Management and Budget on its that agency’s activities to implement this Act.