Expanding FAPIIS: First "Ownership," Now "Predecessors"
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 12.17.14
On December 4, 2014, the FAR Councils issued a proposed rule that would require offerors to disclose all "predecessor" entities that held a federal contract or grant within the prior three years, with comments due by February 2, 2015. This information, in addition to the recent addition of ownership information, will be stored in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System (FAPIIS).
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Client Alert | 3 min read | 04.14.26
On Friday, April 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) has agreed to pay just over $17 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by failing to comply with federal anti-discrimination requirements incorporated into its federal contracts due to allegedly discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) employment practices. This resolution marks the first FCA settlement secured by the DOJ under its Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, created in May 2025, and announced by then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of the administration’s coordinated efforts to target allegedly unlawful DEI practices. Per the agreement, the settlement is neither an admission of liability by IBM nor a concession by the United States that its claims are not well founded.
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FedRAMP Solicits Public Comment on Overhaul to Incident Communications Procedures
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