Issa bill would require more barring of bad-actor contractors

By Charles S. Clark at www.goveexec.com   


Agencies are making insufficient use of suspension and debarment procedures to deny contracts to unethical applicants, the House oversight chairman said on Thursday as he released for discussion draft legislation aimed at centralizing the government’s policing of bad-actor contractors.

“In the 21st century, we must have zero tolerance for fraudsters, criminals, or tax cheats receiving taxpayer money through grants or contracts,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee. More than $1 trillion a year, his statement said, is awarded in contracts and grants “to companies and individuals that are or should be banned from receiving taxpayer funds.”

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