Mandatory Display of Fraud Posters
Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 09.16.11
On September 16, 2011, DoD issued a final rule that requires contractors to prominently display in common work areas -- within business segments performing work on DoD contracts -- fraud hotline posters prepared by the DoD Office of the Inspector General, unless the contract is for the acquisition of a commercial item, will be performed entirely outside the United States, or does not exceed $5 million. This requirement must be flowed down to all subcontracts that similarly qualify.
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Recent sustain decisions by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in Fluor Federal Solutions, LLC and Reliance Test & Technology send a clear message: when an agency tries to fix a Procurement Integrity Act (PIA) violation by committing a second one, the cure can be just as fatal as the disease. The cases involved the U.S. Air Force’s $1.8 billion procurement for O&M services at Elgin Air Force Base. During discussions, the Air Force inadvertently released a pricing overview slide with all offerors’ bottom-line evaluated costs to Reliance Test & Technology, which immediately notified the agency of the error. In response, the Air Force decided to level the playing field by providing the same information to all the other offerors in the procurement, stating, “[o]fferors may consider this disclosure in their [final proposal revision].”
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