# SBA’s Oversight of the Grant Recipient’s Implementation of the CARES Act Resource Partners Training Portal
> **Inspection / Evaluation** by Small Business Administration OIG · 2022-01-18
> *About: Small Business Administration*
## Report
- **Title:** SBA’s Oversight of the Grant Recipient’s Implementation of the CARES Act Resource Partners Training Portal
- **Submitting OIG:** Small Business Administration OIG
- **Component agency:** Small Business Administration
- **Type:** Inspection / Evaluation
- **Publication date:** 2022-01-18

## Summary

We evaluated the SBA’s handling of the grant to train small businesses on federal resources available in the wake of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.


## Recommendations

- **Rec 1** (Closed): Require the grant recipient to enhance its marketing and outreach strategy to include plans to reach a greater number of small businesses and resource-partner counselors and mentors. The grant recipient should also set clear performance goals with…
- **Rec 2** (Closed): Implement procedures for enhanced financial oversight of the CARES Act Resource Partner Training Portal program to ensure the program office enforces the grant requirements and follows federal procurement standards when using noncompetitive…
- **Rec 3** (Open): Evaluate whether the contract costs for web development services and media services are reasonable and remedy any violations.
- **Rec 4** (Open): Assess and recover the amount spent on the unallowable contracted project management services expenses incurred during the performance of the grant.
- **Rec 5** (Open): Recover the $100,000 paid for unallowable pre-award project management expenses.
## Source
- [oversight.gov report page](https://www.oversight.gov/reports/sbas-oversight-grant-recipients-implementation-cares-act-resource-partners-training-portal)
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