FAPIIS Information To Be Publicly Available
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 08.03.10
On July 29, 2010, President Obama signed the supplemental appropriations bill which contained a provision amending the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 -- the legislation that gave rise to the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System ("FAPIIS"). As a result of the new language ("the Administrator shall post all such information, excluding past performance reviews, on a publicly available Internet website"), information in FAPIIS must be made available to the public, except for past performance reviews.
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