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Justice Department expands its procurement fraud strike force

Federal News Network

The majority of federal government procurement is not a set and attacked by bid rigging, price fixing and fraud schemes. And what the OECD tried to do is assess how much money is lost from bid rigging, price fixing and other collusive schemes at the outset from government spending. Collusion and so forth.

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Risk of anti-competitive collusion after excessive level of transparency in public procurement debriefing?

European Law: Public Procurement

In its Judgment of 4 October 2012 in case C‑629/11 P Evropaïki Dynamiki v Commission (ESP-ISEP) , the Court of Justice has issued another interesting decision on what should be considered sufficient debriefing of disappointed bidders in public procurement procedures. 1) (‘the Financial Regulation’).

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GAO Assesses Health of the Defense Industrial Base

GovCon & Trade

Recently, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been active in assessing the health of the DIB and recommending policy tweaks to support it. They can offer enormous efficiencies and competitive advantages to a bidder; however, without a well-crafted agreement, they can represent vectors of antitrust risk.