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FBI, DCIS raid Carahsoft headquarters

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So far in 2024, Carahsoft has won more than $960 million in prime awards. Multiple emails to Carahsoft’s attorney, Richard Conway of Blank Rome, also weren’t returned. Carahsoft won more than $1.4 The post FBI, DCIS raid Carahsoft headquarters first appeared on Federal News Network.

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The power of procurement data: How one villager unveiled a corruption scandal

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Concerns were raised over suspicious tendering practices such as short bidding periods, overly rigid specifications, and potential collusion. In April 2024, the NACC passed a resolution to indict the village’s mayor and his associates for misconduct in awarding and managing the project, according to local media.

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2024 PAW: Going after the Arbitrators – The Criminalization of International Arbitration Proceedings

Kluwer Arbitration

undisclosed relationships between parties, law firms or entities that may be seen as an exchange of “favours” or benefits), to acts of bribery and collusion. Corruption of arbitrators can take various forms, ranging from bias and conflicts of interest (e.g.

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

Kluwer Arbitration

This post reviews some highlights and looks forward to developments anticipated during 2024. Under Yegiazaryan , the collusion to avoid payment of a judgment based on an international award constitutes the “domestic injury” required under the RICO statute. District Courts and Looking Ahead to 2024 In 2023, the U.S. Bielski , No.

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Digital procurement, PPDS and multi-speed datafication -- some thoughts on the March 2023 PPDS Communication

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By the end of 2024, all participating national publication portals would be connected, historic data published at EU level integrated and the analytics toolkit expanded. As of 2025, the system could establish links with additional external data sources ’ (at 2).

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Public procurement (entry for an Encyclopaedia)

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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.