Start Date
4-1987 8:00 AM
Description
The Government's attitude toward contractor debarment and suspension can be compared to the sleeping giant - if you provoke him enough he'll wake up. For years the Government took relatively few debarment or suspension actions, comfortable in the belief that routine audits would catch mistakes, mischarges or improper claims. Criminal violations were suspected in only extreme cases. this attitude empowis changing. Contract specialists, cost/price analysts, auditors, quality/reliability specialists, and program personnel are all more alert to contract irregularities. Increased awareness of the three sisters--fraud, waste and abuse--together with a significant increase in Agency Inspector· General investigations, has brought to light an increasing number of cases involving criminal activity on the part of both contractor and Government personnel. This paper serves as a primer on the basic principles of debarment and suspension of contractors and discusses a few interesting cases.
Debarment and Suspension
The Government's attitude toward contractor debarment and suspension can be compared to the sleeping giant - if you provoke him enough he'll wake up. For years the Government took relatively few debarment or suspension actions, comfortable in the belief that routine audits would catch mistakes, mischarges or improper claims. Criminal violations were suspected in only extreme cases. this attitude empowis changing. Contract specialists, cost/price analysts, auditors, quality/reliability specialists, and program personnel are all more alert to contract irregularities. Increased awareness of the three sisters--fraud, waste and abuse--together with a significant increase in Agency Inspector· General investigations, has brought to light an increasing number of cases involving criminal activity on the part of both contractor and Government personnel. This paper serves as a primer on the basic principles of debarment and suspension of contractors and discusses a few interesting cases.
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