Federal Contracts Report Index-Summary

QUALITY ASSURANCE

– Generally Accepted Gov't Auditing Standards, impact on contractors, GAO's DCAA Reports, FCR Analysis, 93:81
– Russia adopts new arms production requirements, 94:455
– Surveillance plan, DOD final rule, 93:373; status box, 93:375

QUI TAM SUITS

– Ed. Note: For FCA policy entries, see FALSE CLAIMS ACT (FCA).
– Baghdad embassy construction, dismissal upheld (4th Cir.), 94:108
– Federally funded state project, inflated pay rates for unqualified consultants (W.D. Pa.), 94:371
– First-to-file rule, dismissal of subsequent suit over non-trade pact compliant items (D.D.C.), 94:43
– Health care fraud

See HEALTH CARE FRAUD

– Original source status, federal employees not barred as relators (D. Neb.), 93:40
– Pleading

– – Blackwater defendants' expense reports for Katrina and overseas services, complaint not pled with particularity (E.D. Va.), 94:78
– – Deepwater, fraud in inducement claim, alter ego and certification issues proceed (N.D. Tex.), 93:317
– – Defective body armor, 9(b) particularity requirement satisfied (D.D.C.), 93:192; retroactive application of FERA provisions in error, reconsideration still denied (D.D.C.), 93:402
– – GSA Advantage website statements about BAA and TAA compliance, specificity lacking (D. Mass.), 93:404
– – Mobile homes, restrictions on subcontractor sales, allegations insufficient (M.D. Ga.), 93:236
– – Product information, claim based on website listings sufficient (D.D.C.), 93:342
– – Seal requirement violated, dismissal (6th Cir.), 94:363

– Public disclosure bar

– – Cal. state committee report no bar to relator's claim (9th Cir.), 94:43
– – Deepwater, design flaw suit, congressional hearing reliance (N.D Tex.), 94:457
– – FOIA, claim based on request that yielded VETS-100 filings (2d Cir.), 93:281 (4/13/10)
– – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, impact on, BNA Insights, 94:252
– – Scope changes may increase filings, FCR Analysis, 93:319
– – State or local administrative materials, barring of actions (U.S., dec), health reform law limits ruling, 93:279 (4/6/10)
– – Travel services provider's documents not “public documents” (E.D. Ark.), 93:17

– Retaliation claims by whistleblowers

See WHISTLEBLOWERS

– Settlement review, dismissal over relator's objection, constitutionality of review (D.D.C.), 93:99
– Timeliness, 30-day deadline on appeal action filed without government intervention (9th Cir.), 93:144; (U.S., rev den), 94:367