Report 2009-103 Recommendation 19 Responses

Report 2009-103: Departments of Health Care Services and Public Health: Their Actions Reveal Flaws in the State's Oversight of the California Constitution's Implied Civil Service Mandate and in the Departments' Contracting for Information Technology Services (Release Date: September 2009)

Recommendation #19 To: Public Health, Department of

Public Health should obtain approval from its IT division on all IT contracts, as specified in departmental policy.

1-Year Agency Response

Public Health revised its IT Manual and provided us with training material demonstrating its efforts to make procurement staff aware of the IT approval policies. (2011-406, p. 91).

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

All Recommendations in 2009-103

Agency responses received after June 2013 are posted verbatim.