Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

collectively Dell), located in Austin, Texas, agreed to pay $2,300,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting non-competitive bids to the U.S. This settlement demonstrates the department’s commitment to hold accountable those who overcharge the government through collusion or other unlawful conduct.”

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Competitive Bidding Bidding Collusion Price 110

Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

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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Select GCR

MAY 14, 2024

The FAR upholds the highest level of public trust, demanding complete impartiality and preventing preferential treatment in government business. For instance, FAR includes a provision at 52.203-2, Certificate of Independent Price Determination, which ensures independent bids and prevents collusive pricing in government contracting.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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.

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How to Crack a Nut

MARCH 28, 2023

Of all the expected benefits or functionalities, the most important ones are those attributed to public buyers and, in particular, the possibility of developing ‘category management’ insights (eg potential savings or benchmarking), systems of red flags in relation to corruption and collusion risks, and the automation of some tasks.

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