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July 29, 2014 By AMK

Lawmakers knock DHS for contract with company accused of fraud

The Department of Homeland Security has come under fire from lawmakers for awarding a $190 million contract to a company accused of defrauding the government.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter July 17 asking why USIS received a contract from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against USIS in January, accusing the company of delivering at least 665,000 background investigations from March 2008 through September 2012 that failed to undergo contractually required initial quality reviews.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140718/DHS03/307180008/Lawmakers-knock-DHS-contract-company-accused-fraud

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition strategy, DHS, DOJ, FAR

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