# 3-000-24-004-U - Recommendation 1
> **Closed** recommendation · 2024-06-13
**Report:** COVID-19: Audit of Costs Incurred by FHI-360 from March 1, 2020 to March 31, 2022 ([detail](https://api.ai-analytics.org/ig-report/117668))
**OIG report number:** 3-000-24-004-U
**Recommendation number:** 1
## Text
We recommend that USAID/Bureau for Management/Office of Acquisition & Assistance require FHI-360 to develop and implement procedures to include the Compensated Personal Absence rate in its supporting documentation and negotiations leading up to the execution of a Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement, unless USAID provides written approval to bill the rate on applicable awards.
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