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DOJ Antitrust “Strike Force” Will Crack Down on Collusive Bidding and Procurement Fraud

November 13, 2019 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On November 5, 2019, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the formation of a new Procurement Collusion Strike Force (PCSF) to prosecute collusive bidding and procurement fraud in government contracting. According to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, the PCSF “will target bid-rigging and other antitrust crimes that can cost American taxpayers billions of dollars each year by undermining the federal government’s processes for purchasing goods and services and for money granted to states and municipalities to undertake large, high-dollar-figure public improvement projects.” The PCSF will [...]Read more

Filed Under: Advice to Contractors & Grant Recipients, Defense, Government Contract-Related Investigations and the False Claims Act, Public Construction, Public Contract Litigation, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Bid Protest, Civil Investigative Demands (CIDs), False Claims Act (FCA), Government Spending, Press, Qui Tam, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), U.S. Postal Service (USPS)

UnitedHealthcare Wins Medicaid Bid Protest Case

May 14, 2018 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On April 10, 2018, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled in favor of our client, UnitedHealthcare, in their case against the state Department of Human Services (DHS) for violating the state’s procurement code during a 2015 bid process for the $12 billion in Medicaid physical health services contracts. UnitedHealthcare, a Medicaid provider in the state at the time but not reselected for any areas, protested the bid selections after the discovery of a secret December 2016 meeting of state officials and two top executives of another bidder who ultimately won a contract. The DHS denied UnitedHealthcare’s [...]Read more

Filed Under: Bid Protests & Public Contract Award-Related Representations, Public Health Care Contracts, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Bid Protest

Breana Ware Quoted in The Christian Science Monitor

May 23, 2017 By Alston Government Contracts Team

On May 17, Alston & Bird Construction & Government Contracts associate Breana Ware was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor article “For Builders, Trump’s Wall Beckons but Is Fraught with Political Risk.” The article discusses how political pressure from state legislatures and activists has been focused directly on some of the largest and best-known design, engineering, and construction firms that are qualified to complete President Trump’s proposed border wall. Such pressure, in the form of protests and proposed and passed state antiwall legislation targeting participating companies, [...]Read more

Filed Under: Public Construction, State, Regional and Local Government Contracts Tagged With: Border Wall, President Trump, Press

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