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Daily federal contracting news for small businesses: SBA scorecards, agency spending trends, procurement policy shifts, and the developments that shape government contracts. Team Integrity Knowledge Center decodes what each headline means for small, women-owned, veteran-owned, and minority-owned federal contractors — in plain English, every day.
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A major contractor paid $10.5 million after allegedly inflating prices and negotiating a job for a sitting federal official while chasing his agency’s work. The…
Claiming you meet DoD cybersecurity requirements when you do not is now a leading enforcement target. The Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative uses the False Claims Act…
A referral fee, a gift to win a subcontract, a thank-you payment for steering work your way. Under the Anti-Kickback Act, those favors are federal…
A contractor agreed to pay $425,000 after allegedly failing to tell contracting officers about organizational conflicts of interest on Army, GSA, and Navy work. The…
Agreeing with another company not to hire each other’s workers, or to hold wages down, is now prosecuted as criminal antitrust. In a contracting world…
A contractor that outgrew its 8(a) eligibility allegedly kept winning set-asides by routing them through alter-ego companies. The $742,500 settlement shows how shell-company schemes unravel…
Government fraud enforcement increasingly reaches the people, not just the company. Owners and executives can face personal civil liability and criminal charges, and a corporate…
Almost every big False Claims Act recovery starts with a whistleblower. Understanding how qui tam suits, the seal, intervention, and relator shares actually work explains…
Taking a competitor’s proprietary data, or letting a new hire bring it to you, can be a federal crime under the Economic Espionage Act. In…
Progress payments and interim billing let contractors get paid before final delivery, but they rest entirely on honest reporting of costs and completion. Overstate what…
A defense contractor paid $4.6 million after allegedly reporting a near-perfect cybersecurity score while its real score was deeply negative. The gap between what it…
If your work reaches overseas, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bars paying foreign officials to win business and demands accurate books and records. Its reach…
