Metro has failed to track its computer and software purchases, bought equipment that doesn’t meet its own standards and left some new items unused for at least two years, according to a recent inspector general audit.

The report, issued by Metro Inspector General Helen Lew, found the agency cannot fully account for all the software and hardware acquisitions it made in the 2010 and 2011 fiscal years.

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