This briefing covers active market intelligence, regulatory guidelines, and tactical capture recommendations for federal and defense contractors pursuing opportunities in this procurement classification.
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) and False Claims Act (FCA). The False Claims Act (FCA), which prohibits the knowing submission of false claims to the federal government for payment, continues to be a powerful tool in the government’s fight against fraud.1 FCA actions arise from federal and state government investigations, Company self-disclosures and, most often, from qui tamlitigation.2 The qui tam provisions of the FCA allow private citizens, acting as whistleblowers, to bring FCA actions and share in the recovery, on behalf of the United States.
The FCA touches all industries that receive any form of federal government money, including the government contracts industry, which, increasingly, has been the focus of FCA enforcement. This uptick in FCA enforcement is not surprising since its origins are in government contracting; Congress enacted the FCA in 1863 to fight fraud perpetrated by Civil War contractors
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