Inspection Report: IG-0497

The Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), received information
that the Savannah River Operations Office (Savannah River) continued to develop, implement,
and market a human resource information system, despite the establishment of a Departmental
information system entitled the “Corporate Human Resource Information System” (CHRIS).
We recently sent you our audit report of the Department’s “Corporate and Stand Alone
Information Systems Development” (DOE/IG-0485). In that audit, we concluded that the
Department has spent at least $38 million developing duplicative information systems. Also,
despite efforts to implement several corporate-level applications, duplicative and/or redundant
computer systems exist or were under development at virtually all organizational levels within
the Department. Further, many organizations continued to invest in custom or site-specific
development efforts that duplicated corporate systems. This was despite Departmental guidance
to the contrary. This inspection report compliments our audit by addressing one significant sitespecific
development effort and by providing additional details concerning challenges facing the
Department’s implementation of corporate-level applications./pjp