A huge fine for a big name government contractor.
A flood of interest for the next great governmentwide acquisition contract.
And despite all the challenges with the federal procurement market, there is a lot of optimism about where agencies and contractors are heading.
Welcome to another edition of As the [Procurement] World Turns.
The Biden administration use of the False Claims Act to prosecute contractors was tepid to say the least. The Justice Department brought in $2.2 billion in fiscal 2022 around settlements and judgements. That is down from $5.6 billion in 2021, $2.2 billion in 2020 and more than $3 billion in 2019.
The majority of those 2022 cases were in the healthcare sector, accounting for $1.7 billion in all. Federal acquisition judgements and settlements barely registered in DoJ’s annual release about their successes.
That all seems to be changing in 2023, however.
In the last few weeks, two cases may just be a sign of things to come.
Booz Allen Hamilton settled acquisition fraud allegations to the tune of paying $377.4 million. This is one of the largest settlements related to federal procurement in the last 20 years. It’s among the largest ever win for a Qui Tam or whistleblower case as well. The former Booz Allen Hamilton employee is...
AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday refuted paper leak allegations in Punjab under AAP government. "We have been in power in Punjab for 5 years, and not a single paper has been leaked...those stude...