For individuals working as and for government contractors, the prospect of a suspension or debarment proceeding looms large. For government contractors, a debarment immediately renders them ineligible ...

We represent individual government contractors (typically private employees that work for government defense contractors) in debarment cases before federal agencies, like the Department of Defense and ...

On January 3, 2025, the Defense Department, GSA, and NASA (together, the "FAR Council") published its final rule amending the suspension and debarment procedures under the Federal Acquisition ...

The idea of suspending contractors who run afoul of procurement rules is catching on with agencies, but the process still has a few bugs in it. The Interagency Suspension and Debarment Committee said ...

Homeland Security Department contracting officials are reluctant to pursue suspension and debarment actions against contractors even when those actions may be warranted, according to a new audit ...

Benjamin Franklin once said, “There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.” That’s probably because people ...

A new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says the Department of Labor (DOL) determined that 60 contractors should be excluded from receiving new federal contracts for three years.

Federal agencies have failed repeatedly to comply with suspension and debarment regulations, allowing poor performing and unethical companies to continue winning government work, according to a key ...

The Trump administration launched proceedings on Monday that could bar Harvard from doing business with the federal government, opening a new front in its escalating fight with the University just ...