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Dell Whistleblower Suit Leads to $4.3 Million Settlement over Non-Competitive Bids to the Army

Whistleblower Network News

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. Fraud in the government contracting process costs taxpayers untold dollars each year,” said U.S. and Dell Federal Systems L.P. Attorney Prim F.

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Combating collusive fraud in procurement

Federal News Network

This week’s Off the Shelf focuses on the mission of the Department of Justices Procurement Collusion Strike Force (the PCSF). Glad and Talbot talk about what constitutes antitrust crimes in the context of procurement including collusion and bid-rigging.

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Justice Department expands its procurement fraud strike force

Federal News Network

That’s what the Justice Department’s Procurement Collusion Strike Force tries to discover and prosecute. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And just briefly review the task, the strike force, what it does and what its scope is and where it fits in the hierarchy of oversight here in the government. Dan Glad Sure.

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FBI, DCIS raid Carahsoft headquarters

Federal News Network

million to settle allegations that it misrepresented their commercial pricing practices and overcharged the government on VMware software products and related services purchased under the General Services Administration schedule. Multiple emails to Carahsoft’s attorney, Richard Conway of Blank Rome, also weren’t returned.

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Converting a Procurement from Sealed Bidding to Competitive Proposals

Public Contracting Institute

FAR 6.401 (Sealed Bidding and Competitive Proposals) states: Sealed bidding [using an Invitation for Bids-IFB] and competitive proposals [using a Request for Proposals-RFP], as described in [FAR] parts 14 and 15 , are both acceptable procedures for use under subparts 6.1 , 6.2 ; and, when appropriate, under subpart 6.3

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

Open Contracting Partnership

By Torplus Yomnak, Co-Founder of HAND Social Enterprise and the Director of the Knowledge Hub for Regional Anti-Corruption and Good Governance Collaboration (KRAC) In May 2021, amid the pandemic lockdowns, a villager in Thailand took a stroll on the outskirts of their town, making an unexpected discovery that would stir the local community.

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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. in 2020 to 96% and single-bid tenders decreased across all methods – from 62.5% It has debarred more than 60 suppliers for violations, and reduced unresolved complaints and canceled tenders.