Last February, the Justice Department announced that MCC Construction Company had agreed to pay $1.8 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture for conspiring to commit fraud by illegally obtaining government contracts that were intended for small disadvantaged businesses (e.g. 8(a) set-asides). Unfortunately, these kinds of cases are not rare – MCC used a couple of firms in SBA’s 8(a) program to obtain contracts and then proceeded to do the work themselves.
New Regulation Formalizes Ombudsman Practice and Identity for IDIQ Contracts
An ‘ombudsman’ is an official charged with addressing and/or investigating the interests of individuals’ or companies’
