FY2017 Suspension and Debarment Trends
Client Alert | 1 min read | 11.07.17
Crowell & Moring partner and former acting Air Force suspending and debarring official David Robbins published his annual examination of the government’s suspension and debarment statistics for the prior government fiscal year. The article, entitled Suspension and Debarment: FY 2017 By the Numbers ran in Law360 and may be accessed here. This article represents a deep dive into the raw suspension/debarment numbers listed on the System for Award Management and shows year-over-year trends not available on the government’s annual Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee report. It covers agency-specific trends for excluding individuals, small businesses, traditional government contractors, and non-traditional government contractors.
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