President Joe Biden reiterated his vision to “transform America and put us on a path to win the economic competition of the 21st Century” during his March 1, 2022 State of the Union address.
To achieve that vision, billions of government funding is going towards infrastructure, broadband Internet access, cybersecurity, COVID-19 relief, and healthcare programs. Contractors are queuing up to receive those funds and build bridges, lay fiber-optic cables, and provide healthcare services, and they are entrusted to spend that government funding properly.
President Biden said in his address, “We’re done talking about infrastructure weeks. We’re now talking about an infrastructure decade,” referring to the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Some $110 billion is allocated to fix roads and bridges and bring up American infrastructure from its current rank of 13th in the world.
Construction contractors not only need to use a carpenter’s square to make right angles in their project plans, they also “must turn square corners when they deal with the Government,” as Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. wrote in 1920.
Common fraudulent activity in government contracts includes:
Obtaining contracts through false statements in bidding documents
Misrepresenting the cost of projects or underbidding contracts
Cross-charging or improperly cost allocating among contracts
Delivering products or services that do not meet...
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