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FBI, DCIS raid Carahsoft headquarters

Federal News Network

According to court documents from July 2023, “Carahsoft has acknowledged that it has in its possession, custody or control thousands of documents that are responsive to the Civil Investigative Demand (CID) but that it has failed to produce.” Multiple emails to Carahsoft’s attorney, Richard Conway of Blank Rome, also weren’t returned.

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A red light for corruption: How the Dominican Republic is using open data, better processes & collaboration to fight corruption

Open Contracting Partnership

The island’s procurement agency faced more than 250 open complaints and allegations of collusion and low competition in the procurement process. By 2022, DGCP launched its data and monitoring system “Sistema Integral de Monitoreo y Análisis de Datos” publicly. The team continues to add new variables.

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2023 in Review: U.S. Courts Wrestle with New Issues and Refine Old Doctrine

Kluwer Arbitration

2023) , the Supreme Court recognized that plaintiffs may bring a civil suit under the expansive Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for judgment-creditors’ illicit conduct and collusion (“racketeering” under the statute) to avoid payment of an arbitral award which has been recognized and enforced as a U.S.

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

How to Crack a Nut

Moreover, such market partitioning would raise entry barriers for entities new to bidding for public contracts, as well as facilitate the emergence of anticompetitive and collusive practices in the more concentrated and partly isolated from potential competition ‘public markets’ ( Sanchez-Graells [2015] ) in ways that general legislation would not.