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Gen Digital Pays $55 Million False Claims Act Judgment Following Whistleblower Suit and Trial

Whistleblower Network News

The government specifically alleged that Gen Digital “made false statements to GSA during contractual negotiations in 2006 and early-2007 and continued to falsely certify throughout the performance of the contract through Sept. This outcome is the result of hard work and dedication by a cross-functional team from the U.S.

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Price Reasonableness Analysis: A Bid Evaluation Stage in Public and Project Procurement

The Procurement ClassRoom

Price analysis can be considered a stage of bid evaluation depending on the provisions of a legal and regulatory framework. It is an assessment of the evaluated price of a responsive bid to ascertain that it is not unreasonably high nor unreasonably low, but fair enough to the procuring entity and the supplier.

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

In 2006, the parties settled and the case was discontinued. Mongolia was an UNCITRAL arbitration under the Russia-Mongolia BIT involving the imposition of a windfall profit tax on gold sales exceeding a certain price. In 2011, the tribunal ruled that the windfall profit tax did not breach the BIT. million in 2015.

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Data-Driven Decisions in Federal Contracting

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In this post, I will summarize our recommendations, particularly when it comes to growing your federal contract business: market research, anticipating future opportunities, devising effective pricing strategies, and implementing targeted marketing efforts.

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The Importance of Ethical Procurement Practices in Public Sectors

The Procurement School

There is an article in the Legal Edge Issue 67 June-July 2006 written by Donna Kennedy-Glans is a commercial lawyer and advisor to corporate boards, and Robert Schulz is a senior Professor of Strategic Management at the Professor of Strategic Management at the Haskayne School of Business in Calgary. The risk is high.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

Early reformers in this first revolution were Ethiopia (2005), Ghana (2005), Kenya (2007), Tanzania (2004), Uganda (2003), and Zambia (2006). In addition, price overruns continued to plague procurement outcomes, as well as poor contract execution, manifested through poor quality works and delays.

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2023 Washington Arbitration Week Recap: The Interplay Between ICJ and ISDS, the Eyes of International Adjudication Are Humanized

Kluwer Arbitration

2001-4, Partial Award, 17 March 2006. For example, in the 2006 ILC Report on Fragmentation , Martti Koskenniemi used the term “exotic” to refer to international investment law (p. 2001-4, Partial Award, 17 March 2006. ITL-55-129-3, 17 September 1985; and the ISDS case of Saluka v Czech Republic , PCA Case no.