Recommendations Tracker

We recommend that the National Institutes of Health implement enhanced monitoring, documentation, and reporting requirements for recipients with foreign subrecipients.

We recommend that the National Institutes of Health ensure that administrative actions such as terminations are performed in compliance with Federal regulations and HHS policies and procedures, and appropriate notifications of appeal rights are provided.

We recommend that the National Institutes of Health work with EcoHealth to determine whether EcoHealth had any unreimbursed costs at the time award R01AI110964 was terminated.

We recommend that the National Institutes of Health based on information provided in this audit and any other information available to NIH, consider whether it is appropriate to refer WIV to HHS for debarment and exercise continued monitoring and enforcement activities as appropriate over the course of the grant awards and subawards.

We recommend that EcoHealth Alliance prepare subaward and consultant agreements that contain all required information and are accurate.

We recommend that EcoHealth Alliance comply with requirements to immediately notify NIH of conditions that materially impact the ability to meet award objectives.

We recommend that EcoHealth Alliance properly identify subawards in financial statements.

We recommend EcoHealth Alliance refund to the Government $89,171 in unallowable costs consisting of: 1. salary costs claimed in excess of the NIH salary cap totaling $10,627; 2. bonus costs totaling $15,977; 3. indirect and fringe benefits associated with salary and bonus costs totaling $17,836; 4. Ph.D. education tuition costs totaling $13,951 and associated indirect costs of $4,641; 5. Indirect costs totaling $13,037 claimed by a subrecipient; 6. travel costs totaling $5,752 and associated indirect costs of $1,876; 7. visa costs of $2,500 and associated indirect costs of $896; 8. subaward costs of $2,052; and 9. professional fees costs of $19 and associated indirect costs of $7.