The Recovery Act and the Excluded Parties List System
Excluded Parties List System
Mission
• Transparency – Recovery.gov Website
• Accountability – Identification of Fraud, Waste and Mismanagement
Waste, and Mismanagement
• Screening, Analysis, Resource Screening Analysis Resource
Management
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How We Look for Suspended or H
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Debarred Recipients
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Data Matching
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Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS)
Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
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On‐line Representations and Certifications (ORCA)
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Recovery.gov data
Excluded Parties List System (EPLS)
• Screening Tools
ROC analysis
• ROC analysis
• Regulatory Data Corporation (RDC)
• Dun & Bradstreet Analysis
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Characterization of Our Latest Characterization
of Our Latest
EPLS Review • Compliance ‐ entity was not eligible to receive the award due to a suspension or
receive the award due to a suspension or debarment • Risk – entity was eligible to receive the award but information in EPLS indicates a
award but information in EPLS indicates a certain risk associated with making such an award award
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Compliance Issues
Compliance Issues • An agency awarded 5 Recovery contracts after an entity was suspended in EPLS
• An agency awarded a Recovery contract after an entity was debarred in EPLS
debarred in EPLS
• An entity was awarded a Recovery grant when it was currently listed as being debarred and is therefore excluded tl li t d b i d b
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from receiving federal contracts, subcontracts, and other financial assistance.
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Risk Issues
Risk Issues
• 2 individuals that were debarred from receiving any federal awards but serve as principals in a company that received Recovery funds
• 3 entities that were suspended or debarred from one 3 entities that were suspended or debarred from one
program but received Recovery funds from another program
• An entity that received Recovery funds for one of its A
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Risk Issues (Continued)
Risk Issues (Continued)
• 7 entities that received Recovery funds from one agency h
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but were later suspended or debarred by a different agency
• A parent entity that is debarred but the child entity received Recovery funds
• An entity that received Recovery funds but what appears to be the same entity using a different DUNS is suspended or d b
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• 7 individuals that received Recovery funds but the individuals have the same name as individuals that are currently suspended or debarred
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Way Ahead
Way Ahead
• Continuous monitoring of Recovery awards
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• Continued outreach to contracting officials and fraud g
prevention groups
• Identifying possible enhancements to the government
Identifying possible enhancements to the government’ss suspension and debarment process
• Collaboration with CIGIE’s Suspension & Debarment C ll b
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Working Group
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