Unpaid invoices totaling more than $260,000 restricted the District’s participation in a low-cost federal vehicle purchasing program, a new report reveals, forcing the city to the open market and costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The District government was suspended from the General Services Administration’s AutoChoice Program in late 2002, thanks to an outstanding balance of $262,535 for multiple unpaid invoices dating as far back as 2001, according to a D.C. inspector general’s report. The Office of the Chief Financial Officer was responsible for the long-unpaid balance, according to the inspector general, and the issue wasn’t resolved until May of this year.

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