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The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

The Corruption Cost Tracker: Quantifying the costs of corrupt contracting and the savings to be made from reform. Public procurement constitutes about one-third of government spending or 13 trillion USD per year. It is highly vulnerable to corruption with estimates of losses amounting to 10-20%. Fazekas, M.,

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Don’t Leave Money on the Table from Your Pandemic-Era Healthcare Procurement Contract

Government Contracts & Investigations

That sounds like a lot of time, but it can take months to pull together information and documentation to support the Claim, and records can be lost over time through accidental deletion, file corruption, and poor organization. Further, the six years is not tolled during contract performance.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

In instances of active waste, such suboptimal decisions are motivated by personal gain, as exemplified by corruption. Leverage strategic planning and adaptive governance to manage uncertainty in procurement spending. Waste broadly refers to suboptimal decision-making in the allocation of public resources.

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How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Federal News Network

government is going to be your contracting party and they’ll basically operate as a bit of a middleman between you, the contractor and that foreign government. procurement contract. I think the Justice Department has characterized sanctions as the new FCPA, the new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

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Navigating Contract Termination Procurement Act 2023

Tracker Intelligence

Regulatory Non-Compliance If acontracting authority considersthat a supplier has been unable to adhere to regulatory requirementssuch as failing to declare conflicts of interest or breaking anti-corruption lawsthetermination ground applies.

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KluwerArbitration ITA Arbitration Report, Volume No. XXII, Issue No. 3 (March 2023)

Kluwer Arbitration

In both arbitrations, Lima responded by arguing among other things that the Concession Contract and its modifications were void due to corruption. Finally, the Court rejected Lima’s argument that both awards violated the United States’ public policy regarding enforcing or procuring contracts through corruption.

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For Galakis the Bell Tolls: Is the SMAC v Ryanair Decision the End of Arbitration for Public Entities in France?

Kluwer Arbitration

More from our authors: Dealing with Bribery and Corruption in International Commercial Arbitration: To Probe or Not to Probe by Emmanuel Obiora Igbokwe € 190 Arbitration in Egypt: A Practitioner's Guide by Ibrahim Shehata € 190 1900269 ) and by the Administrative Court of Appeal of Bordeaux ( CAA Bordeaux, 30 March 2022, No.