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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. The term collusion strike force, which is a mouthful. They are able to spot the indicators, the red flags of these collusive schemes and report them. Collusion and so forth. Dan Glad Sure.

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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. A focus on integrity and transparency “When we started on Monday, 17 August 2020, the main challenge was linked to credibility and a lack of trust,” Pimentel reflects.

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2025 PAW: The Growing Influence of Criminal Law in International Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

Asso also addressed the possibility of requesting provisional measures to suspend domestic criminal proceedings that threaten the fairness and integrity of the arbitration. In cases of clear collusion, criminal justice will no longer hesitate to intervene in an arbitral process. Notable examples include: (i) Quiborax v.

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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. When it comes to corruption, the only relevant/applicable rules are general principles such as the independence, impartiality and integrity of arbitrators.

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What is the FAR: Your Guide to the Federal Acquisition Regulation

Select GCR

Amendments and deviations from the FAR are managed through established protocols to accommodate necessary flexibility, while maintaining the integrity of the procurement process and adapting to evolving requirements and policies.

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

How to Crack a Nut

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).