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Individual recovery audits shall consist of the review of contracts to identify payment errors made by state agencies to vendors and other entities resulting from (i) duplicate payments, (ii) invoice errors, (iii) failure to apply applicable discounts, rebates, or other allowances, or (iv) any other errors resulting in inaccurate payments. The Department of Accounts shall report on the status and effectiveness of recovery audits, including any savings realized, to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by January 1 of each year.","order_by":null,"text":{"0":{"id":236249,"text":"The Department of Accounts shall procure the services of one or more private contractors, in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (\u00a7 2.2-4300 et seq.), to conduct systematic recovery audits of state agency contracts. Such recovery audit contracts shall be performance-based and shall contain a provision that authorizes the contractor to be paid a percentage of any payment error that is recovered by such contractor. Individual recovery audits shall consist of the review of contracts to identify payment errors made by state agencies to vendors and other entities resulting from (i) duplicate payments, (ii) invoice errors, (iii) failure to apply applicable discounts, rebates, or other allowances, or (iv) any other errors resulting in inaccurate payments. 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This law was first created in 2004. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 644<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2005, chapter 109<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":70034,"section_number":"2.2-4300","catch_line":"Short title; purpose; declaration of intent","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4300\/"}],"permalink":{"id":173241,"object_type":"law","relational_id":64939,"identifier":"2.2-1822.1","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/18\/3\/2.2-1822.1","url":"\/2.2-1822.1\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/2.2-1822.1\/","token":"2.2\/I\/C\/18\/3\/2.2-1822.1","dublin_core":{"Title":"Recovery audits of state contracts","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 2.2-1822.1","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

The Department of Accounts shall procure the services of one or more private contractors, in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (\u00a7 2.2-4300<\/a> et seq.), to conduct systematic recovery audits of state agency<\/span> contracts<\/span>. Such recovery audit contracts<\/span> shall be performance-based and shall contain a provision that authorizes the contractor to be paid a percentage of any payment error that is recovered by such contractor. Individual recovery audits shall consist of the review of contracts<\/span> to identify payment errors made by state agencies to vendors and other entities resulting from (i) duplicate payments, (ii) invoice errors, (iii) failure to apply applicable discounts, rebates, or other allowances, or (iv) any other errors resulting in inaccurate payments. The Department of Accounts shall report on the status and effectiveness of recovery audits, including any savings realized, to the Chairs of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by January 1 of each year.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nRECOVERY AUDITS OF STATE CONTRACTS (\u00a7 2.2-1822.1)\n\nThe Department of Accounts shall procure the services of one or more private\ncontractors, in accordance with the Virginia Public Procurement Act (\u00a7 2.2-4300\net seq.), to conduct systematic recovery audits of state agency contracts. Such\nrecovery audit contracts shall be performance-based and shall contain a\nprovision that authorizes the contractor to be paid a percentage of any payment\nerror that is recovered by such contractor. Individual recovery audits shall\nconsist of the review of contracts to identify payment errors made by state\nagencies to vendors and other entities resulting from (i) duplicate payments,\n(ii) invoice errors, (iii) failure to apply applicable discounts, rebates, or\nother allowances, or (iv) any other errors resulting in inaccurate payments. The\nDepartment of Accounts shall report on the status and effectiveness of recovery\naudits, including any savings realized, to the Chairs of the House Committee on\nAppropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations by January\n1 of each year.\n\nHISTORY: 2004, c. 644; 2005, c. 109.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}