Federal Procurement Additional Data Reporting Could Improve The Suspension And Debarment Process Report To Congressional Committees

GAO-05-479 Federal Procurement: Additional Data Reporting Could Improve the Suspension and Debarment Process

Data in the Excluded Parties List System (EPLS) was insufficient to enable gov¿t. agencies to determine with confidence that a prospective vendor was not currently excluded. In response, agencies had to enter a DUNS number to facilitate the ident. of excluded parties. Despite such modifications, recent allegations indicate that bus. or individuals that have been excluded for egregious offenses have been able to "resurface" under the same or a different bus. name or identity in order to continue to receive fed. contracts and other funds. Kutz described the results of his invest. confirming these allegations in a report. This testimony summarizes overall findings and also describes the key causes of the improper awards and other payments that were detected.

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